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Shatrusalyasinhji
Shatrusalyasinhji Jadeja (born 20 February 1939) is a former first-class cricketer. He held the title of Maharaja of Nawanagar between 1966 and 1971. Family and education His father, H H Jam Saheb Sri Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji, played one first-class match, captaining Western India against MCC in 1933-34, just after succeeding Ranjitsinhji to the title of Maharaja of Nawanagar. Shatrusalyasinhji is also the nephew of Duleepsinhji. Shatrusalyasinhji was educated at Malvern College in England, where he played for the First XI in 1957 and 1958. In 1957 he took 42 wickets at 15.11 and made 166 runs at 23.71, and in its schools report for the season ''Wisden'' (referring to him as "M.K.S. Shatrushalyasinhji") noted his "ability to bowl off-breaks at an unusually speedy pace". In 1958 he was "not as effective as in the previous year", taking 22 wickets at 18.22. Cricket career Shatrusalyasinhji made his first-class debut in the 1958–59 season, playing for Saurashtra against B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji
Sir Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja (18 September 1895 – 3 February 1966), known widely in Poland as the Good Maharaja ( Polish: ''Dobry Maharadża'') was the Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar from 1933 to 1966, succeeding his uncle, the famed cricketer Ranjitsinhji. In the midst of World War II, Jadeja is personally credited for saving around a thousand Polish orphans between 1942 and 1946, following the Invasion of Poland. While serving as the Hindu delegate to the British war cabinet he convinced members of the Red Cross and Anders' Army to transport the orphans to Jamnagar, where he provided them with food, shelter, clothes, education, and medical care in the nearby coastal village of Balachadi. Following the Surrender of Germany, the orphans were forced to return to Poland. In 2011, Jadeja was posthumously bestowed the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit by the President of Poland, and is honoured at the Good Maharaja Square in Warsaw. Biography Digvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chatrapalsinhji
Rajkumar Shri Chatrapalsinhji, later known as R.K. Chatrapalsinh Jadeja (4 November 1936 – 29 April 2009), a member of the Jamnagar royal family, played first-class cricket in India from 1957 to 1971. Education and cricket career Chatrapalsinhji was educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot, and Delhi University, where he opened the batting for the university team in the Rohinton Baria Trophy from 1955-56 to 1957-58. He made his first-class debut for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy in 1957-58. In his second match he scored 69 in the second innings, taking part in an opening partnership of 114 when Delhi successfully chased 136 for victory. He returned to play for his home team Saurashtra in 1958-59, scoring 246 runs in four matches at an average of 30.75. He made his highest score of 98 against Gujarat in 1962-63, a drawn match in which two other members of the Jamnagar royal family, Indrajitsinhji and Shatrusalyasinhji, were also successful for Saurashtra. From 1967-68 to 1969-70 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamnagar
Jamnagar () is a city and the headquarters of Jamnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The city lies just to the south of the Gulf of Kutch, some west of the state capital, Gandhinagar. The city was the capital of Nawanagar State, Nawanagar princely state during British Raj. India's largest private company, Reliance Industries, has established the world's largest Jamnagar Refinery, oil refining and petrochemicals complex in Jamnagar district. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of India signed an agreement to establish the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar. This global knowledge centre for traditional medicine, supported by an investment of USD 250 million from the Government of India, aims to harness the potential of traditional medicine from across the world through modern science and technology to improve the health of people and the planet. India's largest private company, Reliance Industries is developing the world's larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvind Apte
Arvindrao Laxmanrao Apte (24 October 1934 – 5 August 2014) was an Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1959 against England at Leeds. His brother Madhav Apte was also a cricketer. See also *One Test Wonder In cricket, a one-Test wonder is usually a cricketer who is only selected for one Test match during his career and never represents his country again. This is not necessarily due to a poor performance and can be for numerous reasons, such as inju ... References 1934 births 2014 deaths India Test cricketers Indian cricketers 20th-century Indian sportsmen Mumbai cricketers Rajasthan cricketers Indian Universities cricketers Cricketers from Mumbai {{India-cricket-bio-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saurashtra Cricket Association
Saurashtra Cricket Association is the governing body of the cricket activities in the Saurashtra and Kutch region of the Gujarat state of India and the Saurashtra cricket team. It is affiliated to the Board of Control for Cricket in India. History It was founded in 1950. Saurashtra Premier League The Saurashtra Premier League (SPL) is a men's Twenty20 (T20) cricket league in Saurashtra, India. The league was formed in 2019 by the Saurashtra Cricket Association. It is usually played during summer season between May - August. First begun in 2019, it was planned to be held annually. Teams Five franchises are competing in the league. Venue Results Team's performance *Teams are listed alphabetically by year of entry into the league * C: champions * RU: runner-up See also * Andhra Premier League * Bengal Pro T20 League * Delhi Premier League T20 * Madhya Pradesh League * Maharaja Trophy KSCA T20 * Rajasthan Premier League * Sher-E-Punjab T20 Cup * Tamil Nadu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Zone Cricket Team
The West Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents western India in the Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy. It is a composite team of players from five first-class Indian teams from western India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Baroda, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Mumbai and Saurashtra. West Zone has the best track record of all the zones in the Duleep Trophy, as they have won the Trophy 19 times. This included four consecutive titles from 1961–1962 through to the 1964–65 season, although the third of these were shared with South Zone. Playing against South Zone at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in the 2009-10 Duleep Trophy final, West Zone set a new first-class record for the highest fourth innings total to win a match, scoring 541/7. Current squad Players with international caps are listed in bold. ''Updated as on 26 July 2023'' Famous players from West Zone *Ajit Agarkar *Sairaj Bahutule *Sunil Gavaskar * Vijay Hazare *Wasim Jaffer *Vinod Kambli * Saurabh C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament
The Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament is an Indian cricket competition that has been held in Hyderabad (and sometimes nearby Secunderabad) since the 1930–31 season. From 1930–31 to 1937–38, and from 1962–63 to 1973–74, it had first-class status. 1930–31 to 1937–38 In 1930 the Nawab Moin-Ud-Dowlah Bahadur Asman Jah donated a trophy to be played for each year by a team representing Hyderabad and various invitational teams. Many of the best Indian players played in the tournaments, and in the 1930s several overseas players also played. In the final in 1930–31 Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe played for the Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram's XI in their victory over the Nawab of Moin-ud-Dowlah's XI, although the key player in the victory was C. K. Nayudu, who made a century and took seven wickets. In the 1931–32 final Freelooters overwhelmed Aligarh Muslim University Past and Present by 432 runs; for the victors Vijay Merchant and Sorabji Colah each scored a century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy is a premier domestic first-class cricket championship played in India and organized annually by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The teams representing regional and state cricket associations participate. BCCI founded the championship in 1934, Since then, it has been organised across various grounds and stadiums in India. The competition currently consists of 38 teams, including at least one team from each of the 28 States and union territories of India#States, states of India and four of the eight States and union territories of India#Union territories, union territories. When the tournament was founded, it was named "the Cricket Championship of India", in 1935–36 Ranji Trophy, 1935 it was renamed after Ranjitsinhji, who was the first Indian to play international cricket. He played for England cricket team, England from 1896 to 1902. The Mumbai cricket team is the most successful team of the tournament, with a record 42 titles to their name. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumar Indrajitsinhji
Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji Madhavsinhji () (15 June 1937 – 12 March 2011) was an Indian cricketer who played in four Test matches from 1964 to 1969 as a wicket-keeper-batsman. Early life Indrajitsinhji was born in Jamnagar, Gujarat. He was educated at the Rajkumar College and St. Stephen's College. Career He played first-class cricket from 1954 to 1973, for Delhi and Saurashtra. He was one of the first wicketkeepers to pass 100 dismissals (caught or stumped) in the Ranji Trophy, and set a record by taking 23 dismissals in the competition in one year in the 1960–61 season. Although an accomplished wicketkeeper in Indian domestic cricket, he was kept out of the India national cricket team by Farokh Engineer and Budhi Kunderan. He played in only four Test matches: the three-match series against Australia in 1964–65, and one Test against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1969–70 when Engineer was injured. He died in Mumbai at the age of 73. Personal life and family H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Chalke
Stephen Chalke (born 5 June 1948) is an English author and publisher, particularly of books on cricket and cricketers. Chalke was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He has two undergraduate degrees – one in Drama, English and Philosophy, the other in Mathematics – and a postgraduate degree in English Literature. He has taught in adult, further and higher education, but since the late 1990s he has increasingly concentrated on writing and publishing. For many years he worked for the Open University. In an article in the 2010 edition of ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' he is identified as "an author, publisher and captain of the Winsley Third XI". He retired from playing cricket in 2013 at the age of 65. Chalke's cricket-writing career began after he received some coaching from the former Somerset player Ken Biddulph in the early 1990s. He wrote down some of Biddulph's reminiscences, then interviewed other players from the 1950s and collected their cricket memories into his first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Buss
Antony Buss (born 1 September 1939 in Brightling, Sussex) is an English former cricketer active from 1958 to 1974 who played for Sussex. He appeared in 310 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm fast medium. Mike Buss is his brother. He scored 4,415 runs with a highest score of 83 and took 958 wicket In the sport of cricket, the term wicket has several meanings: * It is either of the two sets of three Stump (cricket), stumps and two Bail (cricket), bails at each end of the Cricket pitch, pitch. The Fielding (cricket), fielding team's playe ...s with a best performance of eight for 23. Notes 1939 births English cricketers Sussex cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Combined Services cricketers Living people People from Brightling Marylebone Cricket Club President's XI cricketers 20th-century English sportsmen {{england-cricket-bio-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
