Nitin Saini | |
Country: | India |
Birth Date: | 28 October 1988 |
Birth Place: | Rohtak, Haryana, India |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Role: | Wicket-keeper |
Club1: | Haryana |
Year1: | 2006/07–present |
Club2: | Kings XI Punjab |
Year2: | 2012 |
Columns: | 3 |
Column1: | FC |
Matches1: | 79 |
Runs1: | 4,724 |
Bat Avg1: | 36.33 |
100S/50S1: | 13/21 |
Top Score1: | 227 |
Deliveries1: | 266 |
Wickets1: | 6 |
Bowl Avg1: | 26.16 |
Fivefor1: | 0 |
Tenfor1: | 0 |
Best Bowling1: | 2/28 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 201/20 |
Column2: | List A |
Matches2: | 53 |
Runs2: | 1,258 |
Bat Avg2: | 26.76 |
100S/50S2: | 1/6 |
Top Score2: | 105 |
Deliveries2: | 18 |
Wickets2: | 0 |
Bowl Avg2: | – |
Fivefor2: | – |
Tenfor2: | – |
Best Bowling2: | – |
Catches/Stumpings2: | 57/10 |
Column3: | T20 |
Matches3: | 50 |
Runs3: | 754 |
Bat Avg3: | 17.95 |
100S/50S3: | 0/3 |
Top Score3: | 74 |
Deliveries3: | – |
Wickets3: | – |
Bowl Avg3: | – |
Fivefor3: | – |
Tenfor3: | – |
Best Bowling3: | – |
Catches/Stumpings3: | 39/15 |
Date: | 3 April |
Year: | 2018 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/274785.html ESPNcricinfo |
Nitin Saini (born 28 October 1988) is a cricketer who plays for Haryana in Indian domestic cricket. He has also played for the Indian Premier League franchise team Kings XI Punjab. Saini is a right-hand wicket-keeper batsman who usually opens the batting.[1]
Saini made his first-class cricket debut for Haryana at the age of 18 against Saurashtra during the 2006/07 season of the Ranji Trophy. He earned a permanent spot for his state side with impressive performances in all three formats of the game. In the 2011/12 season he scored 631 runs in eight matches at a batting average of 40, scoring five fifties and a hundred.[2] Soon after he signed a contract with Kings XI Punjab to play in the 2012 Indian Premier League, only playing for the side in the one season.[3]
Saini scored over 900 runs in the 2016/17 Ranji Trophy, one of the highest aggregates in the trophy's history.