Cottari Subbanna Nayudu (; 18 April 1914 – 22 November 2002) was an Indian

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er who played in eleven

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from 1934 to 1952. He was an

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, and had a distinguished

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career between 1931–32 and 1961–62. He was the younger brother of the cricketer

C. K. Nayudu Colonel Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu (31 October 1895 – 14 November 1967) was an Indian cricketer and cricket administrator who served as the first captain of the Indian national cricket team. He is widely regarded as one of India's greatest ...

Early life

Cottari Subbanna Nayudu was born on 18 April 1914 in

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to a

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-speaking Kapu family.M. L. Kantha Rao (July 1999)
''A Study of the Socio-Political Mobility of the Kapu Caste in Modern Andhra''

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. Chapter 6. p. 301–303. hdl:10603/25437 His parents were Cottari Surya Prakash Rao Nayudu and Mahalaxmi. C. S. Nayudu's ancestors hailed from

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town in

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. C. S. Nayudu's older brother

was the first captain of

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Career

C. S. Nayudu played his first first-class match in 1932 when he was 17, and his last in 1961 when he was 46. He played 56

matches, representing eight teams and captaining four of them.''

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'' 2003, pp. 1643–44. In the 1942–43 Ranji Trophy tournament, he became the first bowler to take forty wickets in one season in India. In the final of the

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, he bowled a record of 917 balls in one Ranji Trophy match.

International career

Nayudu made his test debut in the test against

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, 5–8 Jan 1934, and played his last test against England at

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, 12–14 Jan 1952

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