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India Test Cricketers
This is a list of Indian Test cricketers. A Test match is an international cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap. Where more than one player won his first Test cap in the same Test match, those players are listed alphabetically by surname. Players Statistics are correct as of 5 January 2025. {, class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center" , - ! scope="col" colspan=5 class="unsortable" , Indian Test cricketers ! scope="col" colspan=4 class="unsortable" , Batting ! scope="col" colspan=4 class="unsortable" , Bowling ! scope="col" colspan=2 class="unsortable" , Fielding , - ! scope="col" , Cap ! scope="col" , Name ! scope="col" , First ! scope="col" , Last ! scope="col" , Mat ! scope="col" , Runs ! scope="col" , HS ! scope="col" , Avg ! scope="col" , 100/50 ! data-sort-type="number" scope="col" , Wkt ! scope="col" , BBI ! scope="col" , Ave ! scop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Jahangir Khan (cricketer)
Dr Mohammad Jahangir Khan (1 February 1910 – 23 July 1988) was an international cricketer who played for India. After the Partition of India, he served as a cricket administrator in Pakistan. Personal life Dr Mohammad Jahangir Khan hailed from a Pashtun family that is famous in cricket for producing three Pakistan captains: Javed Burki, Majid Khan and Imran Khan. He was father of Majid Khan. Majid's son Bazid Khan also represented Pakistan for the first time in 2005, making the family the second, after the Headleys to have three consecutive generations of Test cricketers. Baqa Jilani, the brother-in-law of Jahangir Khan, also represented India in Test cricket. He graduated from Islamia College, Lahore. At the time of his death, he was the last survivor from the team that played for India in his first Test. He was buried in his hometown. Sports career Athletics In his younger days, he was also a champion javelin thrower of India. He represented India in AAA Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mushtaq Ali
Syed Mushtaq Ali (; 17 December 1914 – 18 June 2005) was an Indian cricketer, a right-handed opening batsman who holds the distinction of scoring the first overseas Test century by an Indian player when he scored 112 against England at Old Trafford in 1936.Telegraph, 25 Mushtaq Ali was noted for his graceful batting style and a flair which often cost him his wicket by being over-adventurous too soon in an innings. He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995, the highest honour bestowed by the BCCI on a former player. He batted right-handed and bowled slow left-arm orthodox spin. He bowled frequently enough in domestic matches to be classified as an all-rounder but only occasionally in Test matches. Career Mushtaq Ali was observed by C. K. Nayudu at Indore at the age of 13 and helped to develop his cricketing skills. A Wisden Special Award winner, he scored four first-class hundreds in the 1936 tour. He was an opening or middle-order batsman who played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilawar Hussain
Dilawar Hussain (19 March 1907 – 26 August 1967) was a Pakistani administrator and cricketer. He played for India national cricket team as a Test cricketer in the 1930s. Dilawar wicket-keeper, kept wicket for India in three Test cricket, Test matches. On his debut, Dilawar was made to open the innings against England cricket team, England on a green wicket in Eden Gardens, Calcutta English cricket team in India in 1933–34, in 1933-34. He was hit on the head by a delivery from Morris Nichols and retired. He returned with a bandage over his head, and was hit on the thumb by Nobby Clark (cricketer), Nobby Clark, but top scored with 59. He made 57 in the second innings and is one of the few Test cricketers to top-score in both innings on debut. He had started his first-class cricket, first-class career making 64 and 112 in his first match. His last appearance came about in the Indian cricket team in England in 1936, 1936 Indian tour of England; Dilawar was studying at Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladha Ramji
Ramji Ladha Nakum (10 February 1900 – 20 December 1948) was an Indian Test cricket Test cricket is a Forms of cricket, format of the sport of cricket, considered the game’s most prestigious and traditional form. Often referred to as the "ultimate test" of a cricketer's skill, endurance, and temperament, it is a format of i ...er who played his solitary test in 1933. Cricket career Ramji was a fast bowler. In a first-class match in 1931-32 he took 8 for 14 and 4 for 32 for Freelooters against Nizam's State Railway A. His brother Amar Singh took the other eight wickets. References External links * India Test cricketers Indian cricketers 20th-century Indian sportsmen Hindus cricketers Patiala cricketers Rajasthan cricketers Western India cricketers 1900 births 1948 deaths Cricketers from Gujarat {{India-cricket-bio-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Merchant
Vijay Singh Madhavji Merchant , (born Vijay Madhavji Thackersey; 12 October 1911 – 27 October 1987) was an Indian cricketer. A right-hand batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, Merchant played first-class cricket for Bombay cricket team as well as 10 Test matches for India between 1929 and 1951. Behind his limited Test appearances, he dominated Indian domestic cricket – his batting average of 71.64 is the second highest first-class average in history, behind only that of Don Bradman. He is regarded as the founder of the Bombay School of Batsmanship, that placed more importance on right technique, steely temperament, and conservative approach rather than free flow of the bat. His international career included two tours of England upon which he scored over 800 runs. English cricketer C. B. Fry exclaimed "Let us paint him white and take him with us to Australia as an opener." His brother, Uday, also played first-class cricket. Besides cricket, he was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rustomji Jamshedji
Rustomji Jamshedji Dorabji Jamshedji (18 November 1892 – 5 April 1976) was an Indian Test cricketer of the 1930s. Jamshedji was a little left-arm spinner who played a single Test for India. He made his debut at the age of 41 years and 27 days and is still the oldest Indian on his Test debut. In the Test at Bombay Gymkhana against England in 1933/34, he took three wickets in the England innings. Most of Jamshedji's noted successes were in the Bombay Quadrangular. Playing for Parsis, he took 11 for 122 in the 1922/23 final against the Hindus and 10 for 104 in the 1928/29 final against the Europeans. On the latter occasion, "wild scenes of jubilation were witnessed after the match and the Parsi team was mobbed by the admiring crowd". Jamshedji was chaired and carried to the pavilion . Jamshedji met the English left-arm spinner Wilfred Rhodes in the early 1920s when Rhodes played in the Bombay tournament. Rhodes is reported to have told Jamshedji: "If I had your powers of spin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lala Amarnath
Lala Amarnath Bhardwaj (11 September 1911 – 5 August 2000) was an Indian cricketer. He is considered to be the father figure of Indian cricket. He scored the first ever century for India in Test Cricket in 1933. He was independent India's first cricket captain and captained India in their first Test series win against Pakistan in 1952. He played only three Test Matches before World War II (India played no official Test matches during the war). During this time he amassed around 10,000 runs with 30 hundreds in first-class cricket which included teams from Australia and England. After the war, he played another 21 Test Matches for India. He later became the chairman of the Senior Selection Committee, BCCI and was also a commentator and expert. His proteges include Chandu Borde, M.L. Jaisimha, and Jasu Patel who played for India. His sons Surinder and Mohinder Amarnath also became Test players for India. His grandson Digvijay is also a current first-class player. The Govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wazir Ali
Syed Wazir Ali (; 15 September 1903 – 17 June 1950) was a prominent figure in early Indian cricket. He was a right-handed batsman and a medium pace bowler. Early life Wazir played in all the Tests that India played before the second world war. In the tour of England in 1932, he scored 1229 runs in first class matches and 1725 overall. In the next tour in 1936 he was hampered by a hand injury but recorded his highest score of 42 in the Test at Manchester. First class cricket Wazir was educated at Aligarh Muslim University. He made his first-class debut, aged 19, for Muslims against Sikhs at Lawrence Gardens (now Bagh-e-Jinnah), Lahore in the 1922-23 Lahore Tournament. For most of his first class career he played for Southern Punjab in the Ranji Trophy and Muslims in the Bombay Pentangular. His unbeaten 222 in the 1938/39 Ranji final against Bengal was then the highest in the tournament. Bengal had earlier been all out for 222, but Southern Punjab still ended up in the los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phiroze Palia
Phiroze Edulji Palia (5 September 1910 – 9 September 1981) was an early Indian cricketer. His first name is sometimes written as other orthographic variations including Phiroz. Palia represented India in his first ever Test match at Lord's in 1932. He suffered an injury while fielding. In the second innings he was hardly in a position to walk, but batted as the last man. He again toured England in 1936 and played at Lord's. He represented United Provinces in the Ranji Trophy and the Parses in the Bombay Pentangular. His highest score was 216 made against Maharashtra in 1939–40 in a losing cause. He was an attractive left hand batsman and a useful spinner. CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-06-09. For a time, Palia was in the service of the |
Mohammad Nissar
Mohammad Nissar (; 1 August 1910 – 11 March 1963) was a cricketer, who played as a fast bowler for the pre-independence Indian cricket team and domestic teams in India and Pakistan. He was born into a Punjabi family in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, and is considered the fastest pre-independence Indian pace bowler. He was arguably one of the fastest bowlers in the world during his time. Indian batsman C.K. Nayudu claimed in writings that during his first spell, Nissar was faster than Englishman Harold Larwood, who terrorized Australia in 1932 in the infamous Bodyline series. Nissar along with Amar Singh formed an Indian fast bowling duo that was considered one of the best in the world during the 1930s. He was one of the founders of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). He immigrated to Pakistan in 1947 and died in Lahore in 1963. Career Mohammed Nissar was drafted into the Indian team which toured England in 1932. He was a part of the side which contained players like CK Nayudu, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazir Ali (cricketer)
Syed Nazir Ali (8 June 1906 – 18 February 1975) was a prominent player from the early days of Indian cricket. Later, he migrated to Pakistan, where he played a few first-class matches and became an administrator. He was a Test selector from 1952 to 1968 and the Secretary of the Pakistan Cricket Board in 1953–54. Nazir Ali was an attacking right-handed batsman, a fast-medium bowler, and a good fielder. He was the younger brother of Wazir Ali. When MCC toured India in 1926/27, he impressed the MCC captain Arthur Gilligan who suggested that Nazir should qualify for Sussex. Some months later Nazir Ali wakened up the secretary of Sussex at 1 am asking for hospitality or to be sent where he could find it. Nazir was lucky to have a patron in the Maharaja of Patiala who sent him to England to study electrical engineering. There he represented Sussex once and played in other matches, resuming his career in India four years later. He played in India's first Test match in 1932 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
