Mumbai: A Former Indian Cricketer and a member of the world cup winning team – 1983, Yashpal Sharma passed away on Tuesday after suffering a cardiac arrest. Yashpal Sharma was 66 years old.
Yashpal Sharma represented India in 37 One-day-International matches and 42 test matches. Sharma was remained a very important player in the team India in the era of 80s and served as a national selector for a couple of years. Sharma was reappointed in 2008 in a panel.
In the 1983 World Cup, he was the top-scorer for India in the semi-final against England where he scored 61 runs and was involved in a match-winning 92-run stand with Mohinder Amarnath for the third wicket followed by another 63-run partnership for the fourth wicket with Sandeep Patil.
Yashpal scored 89 against the West Indies in the first match of the 1983 World Cup and took India to a respectable total of 262 runs. India won that match by 34 runs and bowled out West Indies for 228 runs. Yashpal was adjudged Man of the Match for his brilliant knock against the two-time world champions.
In his Test career, he scored 1606 runs at 33.45 runs’ average, which included 2 centuries and nine half-centuries. In ODIs, he scored 883 runs at 28.48 which included four half-centuries. Yashpal had one wicket each in the two formats to his name.