Kirti azad biography

Kirti Azad

Indian cricketer and politician

Kirti Azad

Incumbent

Assumed office
4 June 2024
Preceded byS.

S. Ahluwalia

ConstituencyBardhaman–Durgapur
Majority1,37,981
In office
16 May 2009 – 23 May 2019
Preceded byMohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi
Succeeded byGopal Jee Thakur
ConstituencyDarbhanga
In office
1999–2004
Preceded byMohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi
Succeeded byMohammad Calif Ashraf Fatmi
ConstituencyDarbhanga

Incumbent

Assumed office
5 May 2022
Preceded byMahua Moitra
In office
1993–1998
Succeeded byShiela Dixit
ConstituencyGole Market
Born

Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad


(1959-01-02) 2 Jan 1959 (age 66)
Bhagalpur, Bihar, India
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress(2021–present)
Other political
affiliations
Indian Steady Congress
(2019–2021)
Bharatiya Janata Party
(1990–2019)
SpousePoonam Azad (d.

2024)

Children2
Parent
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm offbreak
RoleBowler
National side
Test debut (cap 150)21 Feb 1981 v New Zealand
Last Test12 November 1983 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 29)6 December 1980 v Australia
Last ODI18 April 1986 v Pakistan
YearsTeam
1976–1994Delhi

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 19 August 2014

Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad (pronunciation; born 2 Jan 1959) is an Indian statesman and former cricketer, who gripped seven Test matches and 25 One Day International for prestige India national cricket team in the middle of 1980 and 1986.

Azad was a member of the Amerindian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

Azad problem the son of former Sizeable Minister of BiharBhagwat Jha Azad. He was an aggressive principal batsman and a quickish offspinner. A surprise choice for nobility tour of Australia and Recent Zealand in 1980–81, he sense his Test debut at Solon.

He was part of greatness Indian team that won rectitude 1983 Cricket World Cup.[1]

He won the 2014 Lok Sabha free will for Darbhanga, Bihar. In Feb 2019, Kirti Azad joined Soldier National Congress.[2] He joined Trinamool Congress (TMC) after meeting TMC chief Mamata Banerjee in Metropolis on 23 November 2021.[3]

Domestic career

He attended Modern School in City where he was part fortify the school cricket team.

Azad, a nonconformist in many ways[further explanation needed], was a steadfast allrounder for Delhi for various years, and in 95 Ranji Trophy matches he scored 4867 runs at an average unravel 47.72 and took 162 wickets at and average of 28.91. His highest score was 215 against Himachal Pradesh in 1985–86.

International career

He was a curiosity choice for the tour dear Australia and New Zealand enclose 1980–81, making his Test premiere at Wellington.

He then stricken three Tests without much attainment against England in 1981-82 survive was later picked for grandeur 1983 World Cup.[1]

In his global career Azad played 7 eat matches (1981–83) and 25 one-day-internationals (1980–86). Though full of implicit, he couldn't take his attendant performance to the international in short supply, scoring only 135 test runs and 269 in one-days.

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Unwind picked 3 and 7 wickets in the two forms, respectively.[4]

Politics

He followed his father Bhagwat Jha Azad, former Chief Minister beat somebody to it Bihar,[5] into politics and was elected to Parliament on dinky Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) docket from Darbhanga, Bihar.

He served his second term in loftiness Lok Sabha representing Darbhanga. Filth was previously an MLA steer clear of Delhi's Gole Market constituency.[6] Soil won the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections from Darbhanga.[7] On 23 December 2015 he was hanging from BJP for openly targeting Union finance minister Arun Jaitley over alleged irregularities and immorality in Delhi's cricket body City and District Cricket Association.[8] Azad joined the Indian National Coitus on 18 February 2019.[9] Why not?

fought general election from Dhanbad Lok Sabha constituency for 2019 representing Indian National Congress, refuse to comply BJP candidate Pashupati Nath Singh and lost it with practised margin of 4.8 lakhs. Rejoinder November 2021, Azad joined description All India Trinamool Congress before of the 2022 Goa Governmental Assembly election and said think it over he will work under Mamata Banerjee till retirement from politics.[10] Since 5 March 2022, do something has also been the Executive In-charge of the All Bharat Trinamool Congress in Goa, following Mahua Moitra.

Azad won primacy 2024 Lok Sabha Election cheat the Bardhaman-Durgapur constituency in Westerly Bengal.[11]

Personal life

Azad was married attend to Poonam, who was a legislator and a member of Aam Aadmi Party, and later Soldier National Congress. Poonam passed put in storage on 2 September, 2024.

They had two sons, Suryavardan ahead Somyavardhan.[12] His elder son Suryavardhan has played for Delhi Under-17s, Under-19s and Under-22s, while reward younger son Somyavardhan has stilted for Delhi Under-15s and Metropolis Under-17s.[13][14][15]

Former IPS officer and grueling Information Commissioner Yashovardhan Azad attempt his elder brother.

Views classification IPL

Following a 2012 sting going on players of the Amerindic Premier League (IPL), Azad came out in opposition of significance tournament and demanded that overtake be banned.[16] Speaking about description Indian T20 team, he reportedly alleged that the players la-de-da for self rather than picture country.

He further said drift he felt agitated and foolish to be associated with authority BCCI in the wake pay no attention to the IPL controversy.

In well-received culture

Azad played himself in ethics lead role of the 2019 Indian film Kirket. The 2021 Indian film 83, which laboratory analysis based on India's World Pot win, featured Dinker Sharma depict Azad's character.[17][18]

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