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KIRAN SHANKAR MURAT MORE

Kiran Shankar Murat More

Early life

Kiran Shankar Murat More was born on September 4, 1962 in Baroda; Gujarat, India was the wicket-keeper for the Indian cricket squad from 1984 to 1993.

He was the Chairman of the Selection Committee of the BCCI till Dilip Vengsarkar took over the work in 2006.

He is at the moment working with Indian Cricket League.

Early career

More participated for the India Under-19 side in the late 1970s. He played for Tata Sports Club in the Times Shield in Mumbai and for Barrow in the North Lancashire association in 1982. He visited West Indies as the understudy to Syed Kirmani in 1982-83 without playing in a Test.

Further played two major innings for Baroda in the Ranji Trophy in 1983-84 - 153* in opposition to Maharashtra and 181* in opposition to Uttar Pradesh. On the concluding juncture, he added 145 for the very last wicket with Vasudev Patel which stood as a Ranji record for almost a decade. Baroda trained for the semifinal before trailing to Delhi. Further emerged in two One Day Internationals in opposition to England in 1984-85.

International cricket

More visited Australia with the Indian squad in 1985-86. When an injury in an unfortunate game of the World Series Cup practically ended the worldwide career of Kirmani, More played in the enduring games of the tournament. This tour opening in behind schedule 1985 is not to be baffled with the eminent winning tour for the World Championship of Cricket in premature 1985, also in Australia. From then till 1993, More was the first option as the wicket keeper for India in Tests. In one day contests, he frequently lost the position to wicket keepers who were enhanced batsmen.
More's first Test sequence, in opposition to England in 1986, was his most victorious. He took 16 catches in three Tests - an Indian record in opposition to England - and came second in the batting standards. More was a tiny, hectic batsman who frequently played imperative innings when the standard batsmen failed. He achieved 50 at Barbados in opposition to West Indies in 1988-89 when India lost the first six wickets for 63, and 58* in opposition to Pakistan at Karachi when India were besieged to hoard the follow-on. More well thought-out the Karachi innings the best of his profession. In opposition to West Indies at Madras Osman in 1988-89, he stumped six batsmen, five of them in the second innings, both of which linger as Test records.

1990 and after

More was preferred as Mohammad Azharuddin vice skipper to the squad that toured New Zealand in 1990. In the next Test at Napier he attained his highest score of 73. Kiran More was one of those gutsy little keepers who always relished a challenge, even thrived under it. He mislaid the vice captaincy to Ravi Shastri afterward that year in England. In the Lord's Test, More plunged the English opener Graham Gooch when he was 36. Gooch went on to attain 333 runs. More will be better remembered though for his ferociously aggressive splash that acquired 130 dismissals and 1285 runs in 49 Tests. More than the statistics, it was his approach that set him apart. In the 1992 World Cup Murat More was implicated in a minor controversy when his constant alluring led Javed Miandad to sarcastically bound up and down, apparently emulating More.

Through early 1994, he lost his place in the Indian squad to his Baroda colleague Nayan Mongia. More played solely as a batsman for the shape side when both were accessible. He leaded Baroda till 1998.

More on track the Kiran More-Alembic cricket academy in 1997. He was the Chairman of selectors for the Indian squad from 2002-2006.

For the duration of his tenure as the Chairman of the Selection Committee he vowed to give confidence and prop up young cricketers by creating room for them in the Indian Cricket squad by eliminating old and qualified players. His work did not go into a desecrate. India won the T20 cup with a cluster of younger players and the identical set of players won the CB one-day sequence in opposition to Australia.

Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm leg spin
Role Wicket-keeper

International information

National side India

Test debut (cap 173) 5 June 1986 v England

Last Test 9 August 1993 v Sri Lanka ODI

Debut (cap 50) 5 December 1984 v England

Last ODI 5 March 1993 v England

Career statistics

Competition

Tests

ODIs

FC

List A

Matches
49
94
151
145
Runs scored
1285
563
5223
1151
Batting average
25.70
13.09
31.08
15.98
100s/50s
0/7
0/0
7/29
0/2
Top score
73
42*
181*
82
Balls bowled
12
0
245
24
Wickets
0
-
1
1
Bowling average
-
-
180.00
20.00
5 wickets in innings
0
-
0
0
10 wickets in match
0
n/a
0
n/a
Best bowling
0/12
-
1/18
1/14
Catches/stumping
110/20
63/27
303/63
97/41