Nilesh Moreshwar Kulkarni (born 3 April 1973) is a former Indian

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er. He is a slow left-arm bowler and left-handed lower order batsman who stood large at 6 ft 4 inches (193 cm). Kulkarni was one of the many Mumbai players that got picked for India during

Sachin Tendulkar Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (; ; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian former international cricketer who List of India national cricket captains#Men's cricket, captained the Indian national team. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketer ...

's tenure as captain. Kulkarni wrote himself into cricketing history by taking a

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with the first ball that he bowled in

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, becoming the first Indian bowler, and the twelfth bowler overall, to do so. This was in the Test at Colombo against Sri Lanka in 1997–98. He took the wicket of Marvan Attapattu of his first delivery in Test cricket. However Sri Lanka went on to score excess of 900 runs in that game which was a world record at the time."India in Sri Lanka (1997): Scorecard of first Test"। ESPNcricinfo। Retrieved: 26 April, 2017।
/ref> Kulkarni has spent all his first-class career with

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taking over 300 wickets with best figures of 7/60 against

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in 2004. Kulkarni played for Old Hamptonians CC in the Surrey Championship in the UK during the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Kulkarni retired From International & First Class Cricket on 28 July 2010. Kulkarni is the Founder Director of International Institute of Sports & Management, a Sports Management institute in Mumbai. IISM was the proud recipient of Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar 2020 conferred by the Hon. President of India Ram Nath Kovindji. Member of CII's SPORTSCOM Industry Confederation

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