Bapu Nadkarni
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| Full name | Rameshchandra Gangaram Nadkarni | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 April 1933 British India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 January 2020 (aged 86) Pune, Maharashtra, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Slow left arm orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 80) | 16 December 1955 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 12 March 1968 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rameshchandra Gangaram "Bapu" Nadkarni
Nadkarni bowled a record 21.5 consecutive overs (131 balls) without conceding a run against England in Madras on 12 January 1964.
Career
Nadkarni was famous for bowling an unerring line to batsmen which made it nearly impossible to score. It is often told that he used to put a coin on the pitch when he practiced in the nets, and would practice hitting the coin with every delivery.[2] He had a career economy rate of less than 2.00 runs per over.
Nadkarni was perhaps best known for his bowling in the
Nadkarni took 5/31 and 6/91 against Australia in Madras in 1964–65, but with the emergence of
Nadkarni represented Maharashtra in Ranji Trophy from 1951–52 to 1959-60 and Bombay thereafter until 1967–68. He scored 201* and took 6/17 and 3/38 against Saurashtra in 1957-58 and 167 and seven wickets in the match against Gujarat in 1958–59. His highest score was the six hour innings of 283* against Delhi in the 1960-61 semifinal.
He went on to work as the national team's assistant manager, and was a mentor to Sunil Gavaskar. "His favourite term from where we all learned from was ‘chhodo mat’,” Gavaskar said following his death. It means hang in there. “Chhodo mat. You are playing for India. That thing we learned from him".[2]
Notes
- Nadkarni bowled 21 maiden overs,Durban, in 1956–57.[5] In first-class cricket, Nadkarni comes third after Tayfield and Manish Majithia of Madhya Pradesh, who bowled 136 dot balls in a row against Railways in 1999–00.[1] [2]
- The records for maidens in succession with different balls-per-over are : [3]
- 4 ball overs : 23 – Alfred Shaw, North v South, Nottingham, 1876 [4]
- 5 ball overs : 10 – Ernie Robson, Somerset v Sussex, Hove, 1897 [5]
- 6 ball overs : 21 – Bapu Nadkarni, India v England, Madras, 1963-64
- 8 ball overs : 14 – Hugh Tayfield, South Africa v England, Durban, 1956-57
References
- ^ "Former India allrounder Bapu Nadkarni dies aged 86". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
- ^ ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-84607-880-4.
- ^ "Captain calypso". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ CricketArchive
- Sujit Mukherjee, Matched winners, Orient Longman (1996), p. 120-132
- ^ Mihir Bose, A History of Indian cricket (1990)
- ^ Maiden over statistics
- ^ Dot ball statistics