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The average age of the 14 - member Indian squad for the forthcoming six-nation Asia Cup is 25.71. Leg-spinner Anil Kumble, at 33 years and nine months, is the senior-most member and wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel, at 19 years and four months, is the 'baby' of the squad.

The average match experience of the team is whopping 116 one-day internationals, with the redoubtable Sachin Tendulkar being the most experienced player with as many as 333 matches behind him. Sachin, besides his rich match exposure, has plundered 37 centuries and 66 fifties in one-day internationals.

On the bowling front, Kumble is the highest wicket-taker with 315 victims at a rate of 30.25 runs apiece.

The ODI career-stats of the Indian players are as follows :

Batting and fielding :

Players	Age	Mts	Innings	No	Runs	Highest	Avg	100	50	Ct/St
Saurav Ganguly	32	249	241	20	9309	183	42.12	22	53	86
Rahul Dravid	31	229	210	26	7251	153	39.40	8	51	134/12
Sachin Tendulkar	31	333	324	31	13,134	186*	44.82	37	66	100
Yuvraj Singh	22	94	83	11	2212	139	30.72	2	14	33
V.V.S.Laxman	29	72	70	6	2049	131	32.01	6	9	35
Virender Sehwag	25	90	88	6	2819	130	34.37	6	13	32
Mohammad Kaif	23	64	54	12	1311	111*	31.21	1	7	32
Parthiv Patel	19	12	8	0	113	28	14.12	-	-	10/3
Anil Kumble	33	251	124	42	867	26	10.57	0	0	83
Harbhajan Singh	24	82	44	11	355	46	10.75	0	0	23
Zaheer Khan	25	82	43	16	298	34*	11.03	0	0	20
Ashish Nehra	25	46	16	10	61	24	10.16	0	0	6
Irfan Pathan	19	13	9	4	121	30	24.20	0	0	3
L.Balaji	22	16	7	3	60	21*	15.00	0	0	6

Bowling :

Players	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Avg	Best
Ganguly	650.1	28	3268	93	35.13	5-16
Dravid	31	1	170	4	42.50	2-43
Tendulkar	1112.5	20	5602	116	48.29	5-32
Yuvraj Singh	194.3	9	961	26	36.96	4-6
Laxman	7	0	40	0	-	-
Sehwag	312.3	7	1665	41	40.60	3-25
Kumble	2236.3	102	9530	315	30.25	6-12
Harbhajan Singh	719	33	2991	104	28.75	5-43
Zaheer Khan	673	38	3260	125	26.08	4-19
Nehra	387.4	25	1829	54	33.87	6-23
Pathan	119.4	7	640	24	26.66	4-24
Balaji	139.1	6	755	19	39.73	4-48