Profile

Right Hand Batsman
Right Arm Medium Pace bowler
3rd August, 1956
Birth Place : Mumbai, India
Residence : Mumbai, India

Education Qualification:
Master of Arts ( Economics) &
Intermediate Science

Coaching Qualification:
Level-3 ACB & Level-3 BCCI

Head Coach, National Cricket Academy, BCCI.
Indian Cricket League:
Chandigarh Lions
Dhaka Warriors & Bangladesh
Indian celebrity League:
Mumbai Heroes

Coached by:
Ramakant Achrekar, Hemu Dalvi,
Vasant Amaladi & Baba Sidhye

Teams Represented:
India in Test cricket
1983 World Cup Team
Rest of India
West Zone team
Mumbai Ranji team

Club Represented:
Rajasthan Club & Karnataka Sporting Club
Kamath Memorial, Sind Sport Club & Parel Sporting.
Furness Club, Barrow-in-Furness, England.
Simba Union, Premier, Jaffery,
& Aga Khan in Nairobi, Kenya

Office Teams Represented:
Bombay Oil, Morarjee Mills,
RCF Club & Nirlon Club

Teams Coached:
Ranji Teams of:
India Under-19 World Cup 2003
Mumbai Cricket Association
Maharashtra Cricket Association
Orissa Cricket Association
Baroda Cricket Association
Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association

My Profile

Achievements

Member of the team that Won Major Tournaments

World Cup 1983
Irani Trophy 1981-82, 1982-83 (Rest of India Team )1985-86
Duleep Trophy Winner 1980-81, 1981-82, 1985-86
Ranji Trophy Winner 1981-82, 1984-85
Deodhar Trophy 1983-84, 1984-85
Wills Trophy 1981-82, 1985-86

Coach of Teams that Won Major Tournament

1996-1998 Mumbai Ranji Trophy team

West Zone Champion in One day and 1996-97 Ranji Trophy.
Ranji Trophy Champion- 1996-97.
Wills Trophy Champion -1997.
Irani Trophy - Winner 1997.
West Zone Champion in One day and 1997-98 Ranji Trophy.
Outright win against Australia.
Wills Trophy Winner - 1998.

2004-05 Baroda Team

Baroda Team : Winner of the West Zone One-day Tournament and reached Quarter-final in National Tournament.
On quotient Punjab piped Baroda for the Semi-final berth in the Ranji Trophy Championship.

2005-06 West Zone Team

Winner of Duleep Trophy
Baroda Team, Winner of the West Zone One-day Tournament and reached Semi-finals in National Tournament.
Ranji trophy team reached Semi-finals.

2007-09 ICL- Chandigarh Lions, Dhaka Warrior and Bangladesh.

Chandigarh Lions, Runners-up and Bangladesh team did well in ICL tournament.

Biography

Balvinder Singh Sandhu, born August 3, 1956, son of Punjabi poets and short story writer Harnam Singh Naz, is a former Indian Test cricketer. He represented India in eight Test matches as a medium pace bowler who could swing the ball and was a useful batsman.
A late starter in cricket, Sandhu’s break came when he was spotted during a summer coaching camp by the former first class cricketer Yeshwant ‘Baba’ Sidhaye. Next year, he came under the influence of the famous coach Ramakant Achrekar and later the Ranji player Hemu Dalvi. When playing for Bombay Ranji team was coached by Vasant Amaladi,
Sandhu’s chance in first class cricket came in 1980-81 when Karsan Ghavri, the regular opening bowler for Bombay, was away with the national side. Sandhu did not play in the first two matches of the season but then his debut against Gujarat where he claimed nine wickets. He was not part of the side to play in the final against Delhi that season, but was included at the last moment when the originally chosen Ravi Kulkarni dropped out. In a sensational spell, he reduced Delhi to 18-5 on the first morning and finished with nine wickets in the match. His 25 wickets in the season came at an average of 18.72.
Early in the 1982-83 season, in the Duleep Trophy match for West Zone against South he took eight wickets and scored 56 while batting at No.11. Another five wicket haul in the Irani Trophy put him in the Indian team that toured Pakistan.
Following a heel bone injury to Madan Lal, Sandhu made his debut in the fourth Test at Hyderabad. His first two wicekts came off successive balls when he dismissed Mohsin Khan and Haroon Rashid. Those were India’s only successes for a long time as Javed Miandad and Mudassar Nazar then went about setting a world record partnership.