Mohammad Azharuddin, popularly known as Azhar, was born on February 8, 1963, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He is a retired Indian cricketer and an Indian Politician. Azharuddin was the captain of the national team during the 1990s. But after getting entangled in a match-fixing scam, he was compelled to take retirement from his cricket career. Azharuddin, a member of Indian National Congress, was elected to the Lok Sabha, from the Moradabad constituency of Uttar Pradesh.

Early Life of Mohammad Azharuddin
This batting-commander of Indian cricket, famously known as Azhar, spent his early life, childhood, and the initial phases of his youth in Hyderabad. He studied in a Catholic boys` school, called the All Saints High School.

Career of Mohammad Azharuddin
The 1990s was the purple patch of the talented Azharuddin. In his prime, Mohammad Azharuddin had an elegant and flexible batting technique; the wrist flip was his typical style and he warded off the skilled spinners, with the best of abilities. Later in his career, Mohammad Azharuddin primarily resorted to the off-side strokes, which yielded a wonder like the 121 of 1990`s at the Lord`s. Azharuddin is reckoned as one of the most accomplished captain. The amazing Azhar has rested on the laurels of the victory in 14 Test Matches. He too luxuriates in the record of a 103 ODIs, during his office of captaincy of the Indian Team.

His Test debut was in the India vs. England, at Kolkata, held from December 1984 to January 5, 1985. Azharuddin boasts off the 110 in the very first innings of his Test debut. In the first 3 Tests, he had scored 3 successive hundreds. He unfortunately was rendered out for a LBW for 199 in a Test match against Sri Lanka. This was the topmost achievement in his Test career. Mohammad Azharuddin, throughout his Test career, had accumulated 6215 runs, at a high average of 45.03. Mohammad Azharuddin had bagged 22 centuries on the whole, in Test career. Proving his capabilities in the first appearances had become a habit of Azharuddin by then. In the way of One-Day International debut, on January 20, 1985, at Bengaluru, he landed up with an almost glorious half-century, 47 runs not out in the match between India Vs England.

Statistics, exhibit, that on the whole, his ODI Aggregate is very near to 10,00 runs, being 9378. He had attained this outstanding level at an average of 36.92, in 334 ODIs. His career best ODI performance was definitely the dazzling 153, hit against the subdued Zimbabwe at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, Orissa, on April 9th, 1998. Muhammad Azharuddin tasted the pinnacle of prosperity on the pro-India home pitches. He was an excellent fielder, especially when it came to slip fielding and catch grasping, with tremendous readiness. Azharuddin was always determined to leave an indelible impression, in his final Test match. His last Test innings, was mind-blowing, producing a radiant example of a century.

Cricket Career
Batting and Fielding Averages