Budhi Kunderan
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| Died | 23 June 2006 (aged 66) Glasgow, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicketkeeper-batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 96) | 1 January 1960 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 13 July 1967 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Budhisagar Krishnappa Kunderan
Career
Early matches
Budhi Kunderan made his
Kunderan had already played three Test matches when he made his Ranji Trophy debut in 1960 and scored 205 for Railways against Jammu-Kashmir.[2] That was one of eight double-centuries scored by players making their Ranji Trophy debuts.[3] He scored his second first-class hundred later in the year against the same opponents in a match that Railways won without losing a wicket.[4] The Sino-Indian War put him temporarily out of action as the teams he represented, Railways and Services, were withdrawn from the competition; he just played one Ranji match.
Playing in the 1960s
From the early 1960s, Kunderan had a new competitor for the wicket keeping position in
Kunderan's wicket-keeping was perceived to have slipped, however, and the selectors left him out of all three Tests against
In 1965, Kunderan left his job in the Railways and appeared for
The team that toured England in 1967 included both Kunderan and Engineer, but from here Engineer asserted himself as the primary 'keeper. Kunderan played purely as a batsman in the second and third Tests of the series. When Sardesai retired with a hand injury in the Lord's Test, he opened with Engineer and topscored with 47 out of India's 110 all out. He opened both batting and bowling at Birmingham where India played four spinners. This was to be Kunderan's last Test.
Style
Kunderan rose to fame when he scored 71 at a run a minute against the
Post-international career
He served as a professional in the Lancashire league and then with Drumpellier in the Western Union in Scotland. In the early 1980s, he played for Scotland in the Benson and Hedges Cup in England. Kunderan lived in Scotland from the turn of the 1970s. His brother Bharat, also a wicket-keeper, played first class cricket for Indian Universities in 1970–71.
Budhi Kunderan died from lung cancer at the age of 66. In June 2018, he was awarded with a Special Award by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).[9]
References
- Footnotes
- ^ "Budhi Kunderan". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ Sengupta, Arunabha (26 September 2014). "Budhi Kunderan: 12 little-known facts about the wicketkeeper batsman". Cricket Country.
- ^ "Match scorecard". CricketArchive.
- ^ "Match scorecard". CricketArchive.
- ^ Most runs by wicket keepers in a series.
- ^ "Budhi Kunderan". 25 June 2006. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ Sengupta, Arunabha (15 June 2013). "K. S. Indrajitsinhji: A blue-blooded cricketer born at the wrong time". Cricket Country.
- ^ Bhattacharyya, Wriddhaayan (28 April 2018). "Durani: 'Budhi created his own shots'". Sportstar.
- ^ "Kohli, Harmanpreet, Mandhana win top BCCI awards". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- References
- Rahul Bhattacharya, Love Letters, The Nightwatchman, August 2013
- History of Drumpellier CC which briefly touches on Kunderan's Scottish career
- Interview with Kunderan[permanent dead link]
- ESPNcricinfo Obituary
- Article by Partab Ramchand
- Sujit Mukherjee, Matched Winners, Orient Longman (1996), pp. 61–75
- Christopher Martin-Jenkins, The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers
External links
- Budhi Kunderan at ESPNcricinfo
- Budhi Kunderan Archived 8 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine at North Lanarkshire Sporting Hall of Fame