ABEY KURUVILLA

Personal Information

Born

Aug 08, 1968 (48 years)

Birth Place

Mannar, Allepey (now Alappuzha), Kerala

Nickname

Kuruvilla

Height

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Role

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Batting Style

Right Handed Bat

Bowling Style

Right-arm fast-medium

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Batting Career Summary

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	200	50	4s	6s	St
Tests	10	11	1	66	35	6.6	164	40.24	0	0	0	0	4	0
ODI	25	11	4	26	7	3.71	43	60.47	0	0	0	1	1	0

Bowling Career Summary

	M	Inn	B	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Econ	Avg	SR	5W	10W
Tests	10	15	1765	892	25	68/5	117/6	3.03	35.68	70.6	1	0
ODI	25	25	1131	890	25	43/4	43/4	4.73	35.6	45.24	0	0

Career Information

Intl Debut

at 28y  vs West Indies . Mar 06, 1997

Last Intl Match

vs Pakistan . Dec 14, 1997

Current Teams

Mumbai, India 

Profile

The towering giant, Abey Kuruvilla, bowled with diligence and devotion for Mumbai in the domestic circuit. However, he got the chance to represent India late in his career. He still made cricket experts and fans alike sit up and take notice of his exemplary control and his ability to work out the batsman. He also had a well-disguised off-cutter up his sleeve.

Kuruvilla, who was coached by none other than the former England fast bowler, Frank Tyson, rose through the ranks quickly and played for Mumbai in the 1990-91 season. In the next season itself, he snared more than 50 wickets in First-Class cricket. Unfortunately, his credentials as a bowler was ignored by the national selectors for the next 5-6 years.

It was only when Srinath was injured after the tour of South Africa in 1996-97 that Kuruvilla got a chance to represent India. He made his Test debut against West Indies at Kingston, Jamaica in 1997. But it was his heart-warming spell of 5 for 68 in Barbados in the fourth Test that won him fulsome praise from everyone. The efforts of Kuruvilla and his pace colleague Venkatesh Prasad though, went in vain as India suffered a gut-wrenching defeat.

When India played in the subcontinent, Kuruvilla toiled hard, but without much success. He still had his moments like the four-for he took against Sri Lanka at Mohali at the end of 1997. Kuruvilla also played for India in ODIs. One of his better shows came against Sri Lanka at Colombo (SSC) in 1997 when he picked up a four-for. India though, lost that match. He retired from the game in 1999-00.

He was a part of a strong bowling line-up in domestic cricket. Kuruvilla played along with Salil Ankola, Paras Mhambrey, Nilesh Kulkarni and later on Ajit Agarkar. All of them combined together to help Mumbai become a successful side during that period.