Dilip Sardesai Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Wife, Affairs, Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Dilip Narayan Sardesai
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Thursday
BIRTHPLACE
Margao, Goa, India
DIED AT AGE
66 Years 10 Months 25 Days
DEATHDATE
July 2, 2007
DEATHPLACE
Mumbai, India
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
LEO
Physical Stats
CHEST
N/A
BICEPS
N/A
WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
N/A
WEIGHT
N/A
Dilip Sardesai Marriage, Affairs and Children
SPOUSE
Nandini Sardesai (-)
Child(ren) of Dilip Sardesai and Nandini Sardesai
Rajdeep Sardesai (24 May, 1965) (Son) (Anchor, Author)
Fame & Address
DEBUT
FAMOUS FROM/AS
India's best batsman against spin bowling
Education, Net Worth & More
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Career of Dilip Sardesai
He made his debut against Pakistan team at Pune. His first match was against England at Green Park, Kanpur. Sardesai scored 200 at Bombay and a very fast century in Delhi. His memorable performance was against West Indies where he scored 212 and took the score to 387 from 75.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Dilip Sardesai
- Did Dilip Sardesai takes alcohol? NA.
- Was Dilip Sardesai in the habit of Smoking? NA.
- Sardesai was the first Indian cricketer to score a double century at Sabina park breaking the record of Vinod Mankad who scored 184 in a foreign country.
- He was born in Portuguese ruled Goa and still, he is the only Goa-born Test cricketer to represent India.
- Once when asked to say anything he has, at the airport, he replied: "I have come here with runs and I'll go back with more".
- Once he pranked Salim Durrani when they were room partners. The incidence was that Sardesai was not in the room and there was a call for him that there is a fan of Sardesai who wanted to gift him a tape-recorder. When asked about the person who is listening to the call Durrani mentioned about himself so the person got excited and called him to the entrance hall. Durrani changed his clothes as he was wearing shorts at the time but found no one there, so he went back to the room and changed the clothes again. The phone rang again and the person on the other side apologized to him and call him again at the reception. Durrani changed his clothes again and once again there was no one and just at the time Sardesai came and said: "So you want a tape-recorder, hah?". It was Sardesai who was fooling him from the start.
- Once his misfield led to nine runs for Australia. Definitely, it was not deliberate. He saw that the batsmen had already completed the fourth run and had turned for a fifth. He dived at the ball and pushed it but the ball went to the boundary and hits a four.
- A crossing in Mumbai is named after him as "The Dilip Sardesai Chowk". It is near the Fariyas Hotel.
- He is known for his unique terms on the field. For example, he used the term "Popatwadi" for any below-par bowling attack.
- Every year in Mumbai there held "The Dilip Sardesai Memorial Lecture" to honor him.
- Goa government presents "The Dilip Sardesai Award" to the leading sportsperson of their state. Also, BCCI presents to the best player of the test series between West Indies and India.
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