Madan Lal Udhouram Sharma is a former Indian cricketer and Indian national cricket coach.
16 Facts About Madan Lal
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Madan Lal was a member of the 1983 Cricket World Cup winning India squad.
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Madan Lal enjoyed outstanding all-round success at first-class level scoring 10,204 runs, including 22 hundreds, capturing 625 wickets.
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Madan Lal played 39 Test matches for India, scoring 1,042 runs at an average of 22.65, taking 71 wickets at 40.08 and holding 15 catches.
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Madan Lal was a fairly competent lower order batsman, often extricating the Indian team from tricky situations which earned him the nickname, Maddad Lal by grateful Indian fans.
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Madan Lal made 67 One Day Internationals appearances and was a member of the 1983 World Cup final winning team where he teamed up with Kapil Dev, Balwinder Sandhu, Roger Binny, Mohinder Amarnath and Kirti Azad to contain and destroy the opposition.
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Madan Lal played for Punjab but later played for Delhi.
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Madan Lal bowled the first ball to Dennis Amiss of England in the 1975 World Cup.
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Madan Lal coached the UAE team for 1996 Cricket World Cup.
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Madan Lal had a stint as India's national cricket coach between September 1996 and September 1997.
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Madan Lal was member of the Selection Committee from 2000 and 2001.
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Madan Lal joined and served as the coach of the Delhi Giants in the Indian Cricket League till it became defunct.
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Madan Lal later applied for BCCI's amnesty offer since the ICL was not a recognized Twenty20 League.
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Madan Lal run a cricket academy in Siri Fort Sports Complex, Delhi.
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Madan Lal was appointed as chief coach of the Sanjay Jagdale MPCA Academy in 2010.
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The film features Harrdy Sandhu as Madan Lal and is directed and produced by Kabir Khan and Anurag Kashyap respectively.