Sadashiv Ganpatrao "Sadu" Shinde (18 August 1923 – 22 June 1955) was an Indian

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er who played in seven

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from 1946 to 1952. His daughter, Pratibha Pawar, is the wife of politician

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. A leg-spinner, Shinde was described as "frail and willowy". Sujit Mukherjee, ''Playing for India'', Orient Longman, 1988, pp. 217-219 Apart from the

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and the conventional

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, Shinde could also bowl a different googly. According to Sujit Mukherjee, "coming after the orthodox wrist-crooked wrong-'un, this delivery invariably sprang a nasty surprise. Ripped off the top of the third finger, it hastened unexpectedly off the pitch. Its tendency to pitch short nullified its efficacy as secret weapon but was practically unplayable when properly pitched." Shinde's first performance of note in

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was a 5 for 186 that took in 75.5 overs for Maharashtra against

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in 1943-44 as

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made 359* for Bombay. He toured

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with the Indian team in 1946 and took 39 wickets in tour matches. In his only appearance in a Test match, at Lord's, he was involved in a stand of 43 for the last wicket with

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, but did little with the ball. In the next five years, he played in only one more Test. His one major success in Tests came against

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in 1951–52. He was brought on to bowl as the third change just before lunch on the first day of the series. Immediately after lunch he bowled Don Kenyon middle stump with a googly, and followed with Jack Robertson lbw and Donald Carr caught by wicket-keeper

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off a leg-break. He was 8-2-16-3 at this point. He took three more wickets after tea as England were bowled out for 203 five minutes before close. Shinde's figures were 6/91. India took a handsome first innings lead and had two days to bowl England out in the second innings. But Shinde had seven chances missed off his bowling, most crucially by Joshi and the substitute Dattajirao Gaekwad, and England managed to save the match. Shinde himself missed a run out. Shinde found a place in the team to England in 1952 (possibly at the expense of

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). He took 39 more wickets in tour matches but the wicket of Peter May in

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was to be his last in Tests. Given a minimum of ten innings, Shinde is one of only two Test cricketers whose batting averages exceeded their highest score. The other was the

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i cricketer, Antao D'Souza. Shinde represented Maharashtra, Bombay and

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and took 230 wickets in first class matches. He died of typhoid at the age of 32.Christopher Martin-Jenkins, ''The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers'' Shinde is the father-in-law of

, the former President of BCCI.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shinde, Sadu 1923 births 1955 deaths Cricketers from Mumbai India Test cricketers Indian cricketers Maharashtra cricketers Hindus cricketers Baroda cricketers Mumbai cricketers South Zone cricketers West Zone cricketers Deaths from typhoid fever