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Salim Durrani (1934–2006) was an Indian Test cricketer. On April 2, 2023, he died after a battle with cancer.
Wiki/Biography
Salim Aziz Durrani was born on Tuesday 11 December 1934 (age 88; at death) in Afghanistan. Salim played cricket with both hands. He was a left arm medium pace bowler and right arm spinner. His father, who was also his first cricket coach, was not an advocate of Salim’s bowling with both hands and turned to Vinoo Mankad for advice; Vinoo suggested that Salim should be allowed to bowl left-handed only and his right hand should be tied behind him to improve his left-arm spin. He was later named in the school team for the inter-school Hill Shield tournament.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 6′ 2″
Weight (approx): 55 kg
Hair color: salt and pepper
Eye color: blue
family and caste
He belonged to a Pathan family in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
parents and siblings
His parents and grandfather were from Kabul, Afghanistan and they moved to Jamnagar, Gujarat in the early 1930s; His elder sister and her husband moved to Bangladesh. His father’s name was Abdul Aziz Duran. He was a cricket player and coach. His mother’s name is unknown. Salim Duran had two sisters Meenu and Nigar and one brother Jahangir Duran. Nigar was a former teacher at St. Anna’s High School in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Abdul Aziz played a few unofficial Test matches for India in 1935-1936. He also played as a keeper and batsman for Sindh and Navanagar in the Ranji Trophy between 1932 and 1938. The then Jam Sahib, Sir Digvijaisinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, was impressed by Aziz Durrani’s wicket-keeping and offered him a place in the team in 1938. Sub Inspector. In 1947, after the partition of India, his father abandoned him and his family and moved to Karachi, where he lived for the rest of his life; Later, Aziz Durrani became a cricket coach and trained many cricketers including Pakistan player Hanif Mohammad.
wife
According to some reports, he was not married; However, in an interview, he revealed that he was married. His wife’s name is unknown.
religion
Salim Durrani converted to Islam.
Autograph
Autograph of Salim Duran
Career
movie
In 1969, he was cast in the Bollywood film Ek Masoom. Later, she was cast in the Hindi film Charitra (1973) opposite Parveen Babi.
Still of Salim Durrani from Hindi movie Charitra
Cricket
Domestic
Salim Durrani represented Saurashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Central Zone at the domestic level. In 1949, after his impressive form with the school team, he was selected for the Saurashtra inter-school tournament. He was later named in the State Schools team for the All India Inter-Schools Tournament at Calcutta (1949); It was Salim’s first match at the Eden Gardens and he took six wickets in each innings of the tournament. Later, he led his team to victory in an invitational match in Rajkot, Gujarat; He took 6 wickets and scored 41 runs in the match. Yusuf Farid, the then coach of the Bombay team and cricket coach of the Anjuman-e-Islami High School team, was among the spectators and noticed Duran’s talent. Yusuf suggested that Salim follow him to Bombay and play for the Anjuman-I-Islam High School team in the Harris Shield tournament; The cricketer accepted the offer and played for the Anjuman-I-Islam High School team in the Harris Shield tournament.
Photo of Salim Durrani hitting a six
In his first match after moving to Bombay, Duran scored 23 runs and took three wickets against CCI in the Kanga League; It was the first time he played on the field. In December 1953, he made his debut for Saurashtra against Gujarat in the Ranji Trophy and scored 108 runs at the Commerce College Grounds, Ahmedabad; The following season he left the Saurashtra team and joined the Gujarat team and played for them from 1954-1956. In 1956, he joined the Rajasthan team and played for them from 1956-1978. Salim was part of the Central Zone team that won their first Duleep Cup in the 1972-1972 season. In 1978, he announced his retirement from domestic cricket; In his 25-year first-class cricket career, he scored 8,545 runs, including 14 centuries, and took 484 wickets.
International
test
Salim Durrani made his international Test debut on 1 January 1960 against Australia in Mumbai; He was 24 when he made his Test debut. In 1961, Salim was named in the Indian team for the Test series against England (1961-1962); He took eight wickets in the first match in Kolkata and ten wickets in the next match held at the Corporation Stadium in Chennai. Team India secured a historic 2-0 win against the visitors and Duran was widely praised in the media for his stellar performance. He scored his first wicket against the West Indies in 1962 at Port of Spain; He scored 104 runs and took three wickets against them. Duran was dropped from the Indian team in January 1967 and was not named in the Test squad until January 1971; Some reports suggested that there were some issues between him and the breeders and that they preferred him over others.
Salim Duran plays for the Indian national team
In March 1971, following his success in the domestic cricket circuit, he was named in the Test squad for the series against the West Indies; He dismissed Clive Lloyd and Gary Sobers and was instrumental in India’s first win against the West Indies. Although he performed well on the West Indies tour, Saleem was dropped from the team after the third Test against the West Indies and was not selected for the 1971 tour of England. In 1972, he was named in the Test team for the series (1972–1973) against England and scored a half-century in the second innings; India won this match and drew with the visitors (1-1). In the third match of the series, he scored 38 runs in each innings; However, he suffered a knee injury and was ruled out of the fourth Test match. In February 1973, he played his last match for the Indian national Test team against England in Mumbai; He scored 73 runs in the first innings and 37 runs in the second as India won the five-match series 2-1. During his 13-year international Test career, Salim played 29 matches for India. He scored 1,202 runs, including seven fifties and one century; He also took 75 wickets, including three five-wicket hauls.
ᐯildo
- 2011: CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award
death
On April 2, 2023, he died after a battle with cancer.
.@SunRisers & @rajasthanroyals And the match officials are keeping silence as a mark of respect for the late Salim Durrani. pic.twitter.com/alTAAhauoK
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 2, 2023
the chosen ones
- Cricketer: Sir Frank Worrell
- Cricket ground: Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai
Facts/Trivia
- He was the first cricketer to win the Arjuna Award; He made his international debut in 1960 and won the award the following year.
Salim Duran only played 29 Tests but his impact goes way beyond that! He was the best bowler in Indian cricket, known for hitting sixes on demand.
Thanks for all the memories sir! ❤️ #Ხark #Indian cricketer “ pic.twitter.com/xOC1LI4rpJ
– The Better India (@thebetterindia) April 3, 2023
- Salim was fondly called Prince Salim and Shahzada Salim by his fans and teammates.
- He is the only Indian Test cricketer born in Afghanistan and was the first Afghan-born cricketer to play Test cricket.
- According to some accounts, Durrani was born in Kabul, Afghanistan; However, he has denied this claim in many interviews, stating that his mother gave birth to him in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, British India (now Pakistan) on the way from Kabul to Karachi.
- During the 1971 West Indies tour, he announced that he would take the wickets of Clive Lloyd and Gary Sobers, and this came true in the next match when he dismissed Sobers for a duck and Clive Lloyd was caught by Wadekar for 15.
- Sunil Gavaskar made his debut in 1971 on the West Indies tour. In an interview, when asked about Gavaskar, he said:
I think Gavaskar, who is like a son to me, was one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He was so technically perfect. And he was also an intelligent captain. “
- Salim was not named in the playing eleven for the fourth Test match against England in Kanpur; Spectators criticized the selectors’ decision to bench Salim and booed the hosts, and the stadium was filled with “No Salim, No Test” placards and placards. Salim was included in the eleven in the next match and this was his last appearance for the national team.
- All eight of Duran’s overseas Test matches have been in the West Indies.
Salim Durrani was a talented batsman who could send the ball to the boundary in an era when few batsmen attempted to hit fours and sixes.
For example, in the tour against West Indies, there were all-rounders in the team, but none of them could hit the ball to the boundary.
The ball was hit eight times… pic.twitter.com/O0BSaBMdAO
— Shams ur Rehman Alawi Shams (@indscrib) April 2, 2023
- The Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) offered him a coaching staff role at Rs. 50,000 in 1983; However, he declined the offer.
- Former Indian captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi called him a player who was not easy to control and often criticized Saleem for his lack of focus.
- In 2018, the BCCI invited Salim Durrani for the opening day of the India-Afghanistan Test match in Bengaluru; It was Afghanistan’s first Test match.
Salim Duran presents souvenirs to Asghar Stanikzai before Afghanistan’s first Test match
- He drank alcohol and smoked often; He quit smoking in 2020.
- In January 2023, he fell at his home and underwent proximal femoral nail surgery.
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