Sorabji Mehta (1904 – 2 May 1988) was an Indian
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er. He played 22
first-class matches for
Hyderabad
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...
between 1937 and 1953.
He also played first-class cricket for the
Parsees
Parsis () or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism. They are descended from Persians who migrated to Medieval India during and after the Arab conquest of Iran (part of the early Muslim co ...
in the 1930s and 1940s, and served as the chairman of the Hyderabad Cricket Association.
His son
Naushir Mehta also played first-class cricket.
See also
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List of Hyderabad cricketers
This is a list of all cricketers who have played First-class cricket, first-class, List A cricket, List A or Twenty20 cricket for Hyderabad cricket team. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the in ...
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1904 births
1988 deaths
Parsi people
Indian cricketers
Hyderabad cricketers
Place of birth missing
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