Noel Arthur David is a former Indian cricket

Cricket

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er. He played domestic cricket for Hyderabad

Hyderabad cricket team

The Hyderabad cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Hyderabad. It is part of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group and has seen scattered success over its many years in the Ranji Trophy circuit. It falls into the South Zone in the Duleep Trophy and is one of two teams from Andhra...

 and played four One Day Internationals for India

Indian cricket team

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 in 1997.

David was a bowling all-rounder - a decent off-break bowler and a lower order batsman. He was an excellent fielder.

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket...

 is believed to have asked "Noel who?" when he learned that Noel David was the replacement for the injured pace spearhead Javagal Srinath

Javagal Srinath

Javagal Srinath is a former Indian cricketer. He was a frontline fast bowler for the Indian cricket team until his retirement, being the second Indian pace bowler after Kapil Dev to take 200 Test wickets. One ball that he bowled during the 1996 tour of South Africa measured...

 during India's 1997 tour of West Indies. Noel David in a later interview clarified Sachin never said that statement, and it was Ajit Wadekar who did.

Early life

Noel David grew up in Hyderabad and attended a catholic convent boys school All Saints High School

All Saints High School, Hyderabad

All Saints High School is a Catholic school in Hyderabad, India, offering an education for children from pre-Kindergarten to Tenth Standard . It was founded in 1855 and is run by the...

 in Hyderabad. Indian cricketers such as Venkatapathy Raju

Venkatapathy Raju

Venkatapathy Raju came into the Indian side in 1989–90 after capturing 32 wickets in the domestic season. He made his Test and One Day International debut in the tour of New Zealand. When sent in as a night-watchman in his first Test innings, he batted for more than two hours for 31 runs while six...

 and Azharuddin

Azharuddin

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have also attended the same school.