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

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from 1934 to 1952. He was the younger brother of the cricketer C. K. Nayudu.

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

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

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tournament, he became the first bowler to take forty wickets in one season in India. In the final of the 1944–45 Ranji Trophy, 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 Kanpur, 12–14 Jan 1952

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