Lalchand Rajput, born on December 18, 1961, in
Mumbai of Maharashtra, was a right-hand batsman.
As far as an educational qualification is concerned, he is an MBA, and works with the prestigious Tata Forbes.
Lalchand Rajput has represented India in two Tests and 4 One-Day Internationals, from 1985-87. With
Sunil Gavaskar expressing his will to serve in the lower rank of the batting order, during the mid 1980s, there arose a need for fetching out appropriate opening batsmen.
Meanwhile, Lalchand Rajput, who had hit the headlines with some fascinating feats in domestic cricket, was reckoned as a viable alternative. Rajput got the chance to cast himself in One-Day Internationals (ODI) . The ODI between India and England at Nagpur on January 23, 1985, happened to be his ODI debut.
He grabbed the important catch of PR Downton, but he couldn`t score a single run.
The Selectors still, expecting some better performance from him, chose him for the expedition to Sri Lanka in 1985`s August-September. Rajput with his well-founded grip, fared considerably well in his Test debut. He landed up with a 32 and 61, thereby contributing 76 runs at a stand of the third wicket with Dilip Vengsarkar in the second innings.
However, his poor performance in the following Test, virtually ended all hopes for him. He could grab meager scores of 0 and 12 , which welcomed Ravi Shastri to substitute Lalchand Rajput. Therefore the Srilanka Vs India Test at Colombo, on September 1985, was last the Test for Rajput.
His last ODI appearance in the India Vs Pakistan match, was also held at Nagpur .
In the 110 first-class matches, that Rajput has played, he has bagged a fairly good total of 7988 runs, at a high average of 49.30. Hence, first-class cricket was definitely his comfort-zone.
Lalchand Rajput , is at present handling his grave assignment of being the Team India`s Manager in the Twenty20 World Championship 2007, taking place this September, in South Africa .
Lalachand Rajput sincerely tried to favour his Team as far as possible, and still now he is executing his present responsibilty as a manager with utmost dutifulness.
