The best of birthdays to former India captain, @azharflicks!

 Barely any cricketers in India would have encountered the highs and lows of life like Azharuddin. Brought into the world in the Nizam town of Hyderabad in the territory of Andhra Pradesh, Azhar bragged gigantic ability with the bat and was widely acclaimed for his wristy strokes on the leg side, similar as legends like Zaheer Abbas , Greg Chappell and Vishwanath.

Azhar got going his worldwide vocation with a bang when he scored a century on his Test debut against England in 1984 at Eden Gardens Calcutta, 3 years after he made his top notch debut for Hyderabad. He proceeded to score hundreds of years in the following 2 Tests also and is one of only a handful of exceptional cricketers who has the extraordinary qualification of getting 100 in every one of his initial three Tests. Azhar was proclaimed as a batting virtuoso and this assessment developed further when he pounded his direction to a forceful 120 against England at Lord's in 1990. Here Gooch had pulverized the Indian bowlers all over to raise his 333 and India were confronted with the possibility of a follow on when Azhar came in to bat at number 5. Against a quality bowling assault, he raised his hundred of only 87 balls and despite the fact that India lost the match, it would have been far more regrettable notwithstanding Azhar's thump. Transcendently a center request batsman, he was known for his assaulting image of cricket independent of the circumstance of the game and his wonderful getting in the slip cordon and outfield. Without a doubt at the hour of his constrained retirement, he was seemingly India's best defender, even at 37 years old. In spite of the fact that his strategy against the short ball was a piece dodgy, he depended on natural stroke-play to counter it.

The second period of Azhar's vocation came when he supplanted Srikkanth as the commander of the Indian crew for the visit to New Zealand in February 1990. He proceeded to lead India in ODIs and Tests for the significant piece of the 90s and till date, is genuinely India's best chief. He won 103 ODI matches and 14 Tests as commander, with Ganguly being the main Indian captain to better the last option's record. His strategy of utilizing spinners on custom home pitches, particularly Anil Kumble, was one of the significant explanations behind the fruitful ODI record.

The last and presumably, the life-characterizing period of his cricketing vocation, finished in broad daylight shames. Towards the finish of his vocation , in 2000, Azharuddin was blamed for match-fixing after South African commander Hansie Cronje, in his admission for match-fixing, showed that Azharuddin had acquainted him with certain bookies. India's head researching office, the Central Bureau of Investigation led an examination and distributed a condemning report on the situation in world cricket which included names of noticeable Indian cricketers, among which Azhar's was on the top. Notwithstanding arguing honesty, the BCCI restricted him from the sport of cricket for life in 2000. He joined the Congress party on Feb 19, 2009 and effectively challenged an overall political decision from the Moradabad voting public in Western Uttar Pradesh.

Realities:

1) Azhar played 99 Tests and scored 100 in his first and last Test, similar as Greg Chappell, with whom he was contrasted with because of his wristy stroke-play

2) He held the record for the quickest hundred, greatest runs and most gets in ODIs. Every one of the three records have been broken.

3) He has scored 5 hundreds at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, at an incredible normal of 107.50

4) He was at his productive best against England, against whom he has 1278 Test runs at a normal of 58 with 6 hundreds and Sri Lanka, against whom he has 1215 runs at a normal of 55 with 5 hundreds.

5) His most noteworthy Test score of 199 came against Sri Lanka at Green Park, Kanpur in 1985. He was decreed LBW off the bowling of Ravi Ratnayeke.

6) His more youthful child Ayazuddin kicked the bucket in September 2011 in an oddity bicycle mishap.

7) Harsha Bhogle has wrote a book which narratives his life. The book is named 'Azhar'