Shatrusalyasinhji

Y.S. Shatrusalyasinhji (born 20 March 1939, Jamnagar, Gujarat) is a former first-class cricketer and the last person to hold the title of Maharaja of Nawanagar.

His father, H H Jam Saheb Sri Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji, played one first-class match, captaining Western India against MCC in 1933-34, just after succeeding Ranjitsinhji to the title of Maharaja of Nawanagar. Shatrusalyasinhji is also the nephew of Duleepsinhji.

Shatrusalyasinhji was educated at Malvern College in England, where he played for the First XI in 1957 and 1958. In 1957 he took 42 wickets at 15.11 and made 166 runs at 23.71, and in its schools report for the season Wisden (referring to him as "M.K.S. Shatrushalyasinhji") noted his "ability to bowl off-breaks at an unusually speedy pace". In 1958 he was "not as effective as in the previous year", taking 22 wickets at 18.22.

He made his first-class debut in the 1958-59 season, playing for Saurashtra against Bombay, scoring 15 not out and a duck and taking the wicket of Arvind Apte. In 1959 he and his father visited England and he played three matches for Sussex Second XI as an amateur, without much success.

He played three matches for Saurashtra in 1959-60, four in 1961-62, and four in 1962-63, with a highest score of 65, the top score of the match, in a victory over Baroda in 1961-62. His highest career score came against Maharashtra in 1963-64, when batting at number three he scored 164 not out in seven and a half hours out of a total of 382.