Polly Umrigar
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| Full name | Pahlan Ratanji Umrigar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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28 March 1926 Solapur, Maharashtra, India (see ) |
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| Died | 7 November 2006 (aged 80) Mumbai, India |
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm offbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-Rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 47) | 9 December 1948 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 13 April 1962 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar 
pronunciation (28 March 1926 – 7 November 2006) was an Indian cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Bombay, and Test cricket in the Indian cricket team, mainly as a middle-order batsman but also bowling occasional medium pace and off spin. He captained the Indian team in eight Test matches from 1955 to 1958. When he retired in 1962, he had played in more Tests (59), scored more Test runs (3,631), and recorded more Test centuries (12), than any other Indian player. He scored the first double century by an Indian in Test cricket against New Zealand in Hyderabad.
Polly Umrigar was probably born in Bombay but his place of birth is often cited as Solapur, Maharashtra (see ). His father ran a clothing company. He grew up in Solapur and his family moved to Bombay when he was at school.
He was a Parsi (from the Zoroastrian community in India), the community that dominated the Bombay cricket in the early decades of the twentieth century. He made his first class debut for Parsis at the age of 18 in the Bombay Pentangular in 1944, and studied for a BSc at St Xavier's College. He captained the Bombay University team. He also played hockey and football competitively.
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