Career
Madan Lal enjoyed outstanding all-round success at first-class level scoring 10,204 runs (av 4287), including 22 hundreds, also capturing 625 wickets (av 2550). He had a side-on bowling action. He played 39 Test matches for India, scoring 1,042 runs at an average of 22.65, taking 71 wickets at 40.08 and holding 15 catches.
He was a fairly competent lower order batsman, often extricating the Indian team from tricky situations which earned him the nickname, Maddat Lal by grateful Indian fans.
Madan Lal played for Punjab but later played for Delhi. Madan Lal also bowled the first ball to Dennis Amiss of England in the 1975 World Cup In his retirement, Madan Lal has been actively involved in the game in various capacities.
Madan Lal coached the United Arab Emirates team for 1996. Madan Lal had a stint as India"s national cricket coach between September 1996 and September 1997 He joined and served as the coach of the Delhi Giants (known as the Delhi Jets till 2008) in the Indian Cricket League till it became defunct.
He later applied for BCCI"s amnesty offer since the International Computers Limited was not a recognized Twenty20 League.
Madan Lal run a cricket academy in Siri Fort Sports Complex, Delhi. He was appointed as chief coach of the Sanjay Jagdale MPCA Academy in 2010. In March 2009, the Indian National Congress decided to field Madan Lal as their candidate for the Hamirpur Parliamentary constituency bye elections in Himachal Pradesh.
Madan Lal was chosen to contest the bye elections against Anurag Thakur, son of the Himachal Pradesh BJP leader, Prem Kumar Dhumal.
In April 2013, Madan Lal came on a crime show called Hum Ne Li HaiShapath on Life Oklahoma at 9 pm.