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Venkatappa Musandra Muddiah (8 June 1929 – 1 October 2009) was an Indian
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er who played in 2
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from 1959 to 1960. Born in
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,
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, Muddiah came up through the
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and Mysore State 'B' team. He studied in the Malleswaram Middle and High School and Central College, Bangalore. He later played club cricket for Malleswaram Gymkhana and Friends Union CC. He joined the
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in 1948, but was soon found 'unfit for flying'. He left the Air Force and represented
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in 1951–52 but was recalled to the IAF as an
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in the next year. He went on to become a
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before taking voluntary retirement in 1979. Muddiah started off a batsman, became a medium pacer and finally an off-spinner. He retained his fifteen step runup even while bowling spin. He had a great start to his first class career when he took 8 for 54 and 4 for 43 for
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against Southern Punjab in 1949. But for most of his career he had to live in the shadow of Ghulam Ahmed who was the primary Indian off spinner at the time. Muddiah was not selected for the Indian team till Ghulam retired in 1959. Muddiah toured
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in
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, took thirty wickets in first class matches but did not appear in a Test. He failed to take a wicket on Test debut against
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in 1959–60. In his only other appearance, against
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a year later, he took the wickets of
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,
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and Imtiaz Ahmed and had
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dropped at short-leg by
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. Another chance came against the visiting
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team in 1961–62. Muddiah took 6 for 71 for the North Zone, all the wickets were top-order batsmen. But after an unsuccessful match for
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against MCC on the eve of the fourth Test he was not selected. He retired soon after. Muddiah took 175 wickets in his first class career that lasted until late 1962. One of his more notable performances was for
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in the 1951-52 Ranji semifinal against
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. After Mysore made 170, Bombay finished the first day on 163 for 1. It rained overnight and Muddiah took six wickets in eight overs to bowl Bombay out for 205 on the second day. Mysore still lost by an inning. He also took 5 for 2 against
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in 1961–62. Muddiah had his benefit match in 1980. The Government of
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provided him with of land outside
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where he ran a farm. He had two daughters and a son who is a lieutenant colonel in the Army.


References


Sources

*Rajan Bala, "In the shadow of Ghulam Ahmed", Crickettalk magazine, 20 July 2000. *Vedam Jaishankar, ''Casting a spell: The story of Karnataka cricket'', UBS Publishers, , pp. 47–51


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