Shatrusalyasinhji Jadeja (born 20 February 1939) is a former
first-class cricket
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er. 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
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against
MCC in 1933-34, just after succeeding
Ranjitsinhji
Colonel Kumar Sri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II, (10 September 1872 – 2 April 1933), often known as Ranji or K. S. Ranjitsinhji, was an Indian cricketer who later became ruler of his native Indian princely state of Nawanagar State, Nawan ...
to the title of Maharaja of Nawanagar. Shatrusalyasinhji is also the nephew of
Duleepsinhji.
Shatrusalyasinhji was educated at
Malvern College
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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
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'' (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
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** Kathiawar, also called Saurashtra Peninsula, a peninsula in western India
** Saurashtra (state), alias United State of Kathiawar, a former Indian state, merged into Bombay State and since its d ...
against
Bombay
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, scoring 15 not out and a
duck
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and taking the wicket of
Arvind Apte. In 1959 he and his father visited England and he played three matches for
Sussex
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Second XI as an amateur, without much success.
He played three matches for Saurashtra in 1959–60, four in 1961–62, and four in 1962–63, with a highest score of 65,
[Shatrusalyasinhji batting by season](_blank)
/ref> the top score of the match, in a victory over Baroda
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in 1961–62. His highest career score came against Maharashtra
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in 1963–64, when batting at number three he scored 164 not out
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Occurrence
At least one batter is not out at ...
in seven and a half hours out of a total of 382.
In 1964, he brought his old Sussex teammates Les Lenham and Tony Buss to India; Lenham to coach him, Buss to bowl to him. Lenham said Shatrusalyasinhji "wanted to be a Ranji and a Duleep, all rolled into one, but he played too exotically". His batting yielded only 113 runs in four matches in 1964–65, but he did take his best bowling figures, 4 for 101 against Baroda, in a Saurashtra team that also included two other members of the Jamnagar royal family, Kumar Indrajitsinhji and 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
Chatrapalsi ...
.
In 1966–67, Shatrusalyasinhji's final season of first-class cricket, he captained Saurashtra in the 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 ...
, and Indian Starlets
Indian Starlets were a team of young Indian cricketers who played 16 first-class matches between 1960 and 1967.
Tour of Pakistan, 1959-60
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to the final of the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament, and was also selected for West Zone to play the touring West Indians
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.
After cricket
Shatrusalyasinhji was head of the Saurashtra Cricket Association till 1972.
At one stage he kept around 8000 pets in his palaces. He has a walled wildlife reserve opposite his house in Jamnagar.[Astill, p. 29.]
During a three-day tour of Gujarat
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in April 2022, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician who has served as the Prime Minister of India, prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Par ...
visited Shatrusalyasinhji at his home. He spoke of their friendship and paid tribute to the goodwill Shatrusalyasinhji and his family had fostered around the world.
Personal life
Shatrusalyasinhji married a member of the Nepalese royal family,[Nawanagar (princely state)]
Retrieved 25 March 2014. and succeeded to the title of Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar in February 1966 on the death of his father. When the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution of India was passed in 1971, abolishing princely privy purses and entitlements, he became H H Jam Saheb Sri Shatrusalyasinhji.[
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References
External links
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1939 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Gujarati people
People from Jamnagar
Cricketers from Gujarat
People educated at Malvern College
Saurashtra cricketers
West Zone cricketers
Indian Starlets cricketers
Nawanagar State
Maharajas of Nawanagar