Navjot Singh Sidhu, born on 20th October , 1963, was a right-hand batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. This fiery stroke-producer used to blow away the rival spin bowling with his high-voltage batting.

Navjot Singh Sidhu`s cricket career ranged from 1983 to 1999.

He made his Test debut in November 1983`s India Vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. His debut performance, yielding just a meager 19 runs , was not at all significant.

Navjot Singh Sidhu made a dazzling comeback in the 1987 World Cup, held in India . He flaunted a brilliant 73, on his One-Day Internationals debut in the India Vs Australia at Chennai on October 9, 1987.

The vigorous Sidhu sustained this prolific form in four of the five World Cup matches he took part in. He demonstrated his resplendent half-centuries in those four matches.

Navjot Singh Sidhu , attained his maiden ODI century, against the competent Pakistan, at Sharjah, in 1989.

1993, at Gwalior, against England , he achieved the loftiest achievement of his ODI career, the towering 134.

Navjot Singh Sidhu , had represented India in 51 Tests and 136 One-Day Internationals. Navjot Singh Sidhu had enough of caliber to obtain 500 runs, thrice a year, during 1993, 1994 and 1997.

Alone in 1994, he reached 885 runs in the ODI.

His Test optimal peak was a fantastic 201 against West Indies in 1996-97, within a span of eleven hours only.

Sidhu who had perfected the art of combating against spin-attacks, had the outstanding example of hitting eight sixes in 124 in the face of the difficult Sri Lanka bowling in 1993-94. Muralitharan, and the other efficient Sri Lanka bowlers could not stand before the storm called Navjot Singh Sidhu.

He erected the stunning instance of four fifties in five innings against Australia in 1997-98.

His last ODI happened to be the India Vs Pakistan at Toronto on September 20, 1998. While his last Test was the New Zealand Vs India at Hamilton , on January, 1999. Navjot Singh Sidhu bade a farewell to his player`s life, in 1999, only to make a new cricket-related start.

Sidhu inaugural experience as a commentator was for NIMBUS, during the tour of India to Sri Lanka in 2001. Later he received the scope of casting himself as a commentator with the leading sports channel ESPN.

Recently, Sidhu has been appointed as the honourable judge of the reality show of the best comic performance, called the "The Great Indian Laughter Challenge". This has highlighted on the humour-loving nature of Sidhu. He really possess the ability to appreciate jokes and humour, in the truest sense of the element.

It is evident, that men like Navjot Singh Sidhu, with multiple virtues, are born to be famous.