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Place of Birth: Solapur, Maharashtra, India
About Salil Ankola
- Salil Ashok Ankola pronunciation (born 1 March 1968) is an Indian actor and former international cricketer who played one Test match and twenty One Day Internationals (ODIs) from 1989 to 1997 for India.
- A right-arm [fast bowler, he played first-class cricket for Maharashtra, regularly opening the bowling.
- Ankola's consistent performances for Maharashtra earned him a call for representing India during their tour of Pakistan in 1989–90.
- After the first Test match at Karachi, he was dropped for the subsequent matches in the series owing to injuries (TEST).
- After a brief phase of playing first-class cricket, Ankola was called for the Indian ODI team during 1993, eventually led to being a part of the 1996 Cricket World Cup.
- At age 28, Ankola retired due to a sudden development of bone tumor in his left shin bone (osteoid osteoma) because of which he could not run for 2 years.
- Since then he went on to appear in a number of Indian soap operas and a few Hindi films.
- In 2006 he participated in Bigg Boss.
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