Bapu Nadkarni
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Full Name
Rameshchandra Gangaram Nadkarni
Born
April 04, 1933, Nasik, Maharashtra
Died
January 17, 2020, Mumbai, (aged 86y 288d)
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Playing Role
Allrounder
Batsmen faced with the problem of playing Bapu Nadkarni's left-arm spin had two scoring options to choose from: nil and negligible. Nadkarni was one of the game's most noted economist ever - he gave away just 1.67 runs per over over in his Test career. In the 1960-61 series against Pakistan, he returned figures of 32-24-23-0 at Kanpur followed by 34-24-24-1 at Delhi. He crowned that with Test cricket's finest display of quantity-control bowling, with 21 successive maidens in his 32-27-5-0 against England at Madras in 1964. His legendary parsimony and precision were the result of untiring research and development in the nets - he would bowl endlessly at a coin placed on a good length. Although he is mainly remembered for his bowling, Nadkarni was actually a competent allrounder. An obstinate batsman with a pronounced crouching stance, he scored 52 and 122, both not out, against England at Kanpur in 1963-64, and in his next outing, against Australia at Chennai, he came up with his Test best bowling effort: 5-31 and 6-91. And with a first-class average of more than 40, and an innings of 283 not out for Bombay v Delhi to his credit, he'd have been an automatic pick if one-day cricket had been around in his time. H Natarajan
Batting & Fielding
Format | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100s | 50s | 6s | Ct | St |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Test | 41 | 67 | 12 | 1414 | 122* | 25.70 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 22 | 0 |
FC | 191 | 266 | 46 | 8880 | 283* | 40.36 | 14 | 46 | - | 140 | 0 |
Bowling
Format | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Test | 41 | 65 | 9165 | 2559 | 88 | 6/43 | 11/122 | 29.07 | 1.67 | 104.1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
FC | 191 | - | 38913 | 10686 | 500 | 6/17 | - | 21.37 | 1.64 | 77.8 | - | 19 | 1 |