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Naoomal Jeoomal
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{{Infobox Historic Cricketer |
flag = India_flag_large.png |
nationality = Indian |
country = India |
country abbrev = IND |
name = Naoomal Jeoomal |
picture = Cricket_no_pic.png |
batting style = Right-hand bat (RHB) |
bowling style = Leg-break bowler |
tests = 3 |
test runs = 108 |
test bat avg = 27.00 |
test 100s/50s = 0/0 |
test top score = 43 |
test balls = 108 |
test wickets = 2 |
test bowl avg = 34.00 |
test 5s = - |
test 10s = - |
test best bowling = 1/4 |
test catches/stumpings = 0 |
FCs = 84 |
FC runs = 4,140 |
FC bat avg = 32.59 |
FC 100s/50s = 7/16 |
FC top score = 203* |
FC balls = 5102 |
FC wickets = 108 |
FC bowl avg = 27.54 |
FC 5s = 6 |
FC 10s = 0 |
FC best bowling = 5/18 |
FC catches/stumpings = 43 |
debut date = 25 June |
debut year = 1932 |
last date = 10 February |
last year = 1934 |
source = http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/595/595.html
}}
'''Naoomal Jeoomal Makhija''' (born on
April 17,
1904,
Karachi - died on
July 28,
1980,
Mumbai Bombay) was
Indian cricket team India's first opening
batsman in
Test cricket
Naoomal Jeoomal scored 33 and 25 opening India's innings in their first ever Test, at
Lord's in
1932. He also shared reasonable stands of 39 and 41 with his opening partner
Janardan Navle in the two innings. Naoomal was dimunitve, defensive batsman who strong point was the
Cricket_terminology#C cut. He made 1297 runs in the tour playing in all the 26 first class matches, a decent performance considering that he had played only on matting wickets till then.
Wisden also had a few nice words for his fielding.
When
English cricket team England returned the visit in
1933-
1934 34, Jeoomal missed the first Test. He scored 2 and 43 at
Eden Gardens Calcutta but in
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium Madras, he was hit on the face by
Nobby Clark. The injury ended his innings and his Test career. In his first match in the
Ranji Trophy, for Sind against Western India in
1934-
1935 |35, he scored 63 and 53, despite being hit by
Amar Singh (cricketer) Amar Singh and
Ladha Ramji, and took 5/78 and 3/52 in bowling. He played in the Sind Pentangular matches from
1922 till
1946, scoring 1993 runs (average 47) with six hundreds.
His highest score in first class cricket was a 203* scored in four and a half hours for Sind against Nawanagar in
1938-
1939 39 [http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/f/16/f16158.html]. The Sind total of 326 was then a world record for the lowest first class score to include a double hundred.
He coached Pakistan in the late 1950s and became national selector from
1957. He moved to
India in
1971.
He was the oldest Indian Test cricketer to attend the Golden Jubilee Test in
1980 which marked the fiftieth year of the founding of
Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI, the oldest living cricketer
Cota Ramaswami being absent.
'''Note''' : Naoomal's obituaries in
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Wisden Almanack and
Wisden Cricket Monthly both give his date of death as
July 18.
References
*
Indian Cricket (annual) Indian Cricket 1980 obituary
* Christopher Martin-Jenkins, ''The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers''
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