Duleepsinhji
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| Full name | Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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13 June 1905 Nawanagar State, Kathiawar, British India |
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| Died | 5 December 1959 (aged 54) Bombay, Bombay State, India |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 238) | 15 June 1929 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 18 August 1931 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1924–1931 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1925–1928 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1928–1929 | Hindus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Duleepsinhji usually referred to as Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji or K. S. Duleepsinhji (13 June 1905 – 5 December 1959) was a cricketer who played for England. He was educated at the Rajkumar College, Rajkot, India and Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire, England.
Descended from the Jam Sahibs of Nawanagar State, Duleepsinhji was born on the Kathiawar peninsula in present-day Gujarat. His brothers included Himmatsinhji, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Himachal Pradesh, and Digvijaysinhji, who succeeded the brothers' uncle, Ranjitsinhji, as ruler of Nawanagar. While he was still playing school cricket, the future President of the MCC, HS Altham, wrote of him in Wisden: "In natural gifts of eye, wrist and footwork he is certainly blest far above the ordinary measure... there is no doubt about the judgment and certainty with which he takes toll of straight balls of anything but the most immaculate length. His late cutting is quite beautiful and there is a certain ease and maturity about all his batting methods that stamps him as of a different class from the ordinary school batsman." Duleepsinhji went on to achieve great success as a batsman for Cheltenham College, Cambridge University, Sussex and eventually England in a career cut short by recurrent illness. His Test average of 58.5 ranks him among the best batsmen to have played Test cricket.
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