Foreign players in Ranji Trophy
Aslam Siddiqui
>Vishal
>P.S.- Aslam may already have a complet list of foreign players who have
>played for India's Ranji league - I suspect that the representation was
>high prior to Independence.
GEB Abell Worcestershire, North India
DCS Compton Middlesex, Holkar
R Gilchrist Jamaica, Hyderabad
PF Judge Middlesex, Glamorgan, Bengal
LA King Jamaica, Bengal
M Robinson Glamorgan, Warwickshire, Hyderabad, Madras
RJO Meyer Somerset, West India
RT Simpson Nottinghamshire, Sind
SC Stayer Guyana, Bombay
FA Tarrant Victoria, Middlesex, Patiala
PI Van der Gucht Gloucestershire, Bengal
C Watson Jamaica, Delhi
aslam
Ramaswamy
> >Vishal
>
>>P.S.- Aslam may already have a complet list of foreign players who have
>>played for India's Ranji league - I suspect that the representation was
>>high prior to Independence.
>
>GEB Abell Worcestershire, North India
>DCS Compton Middlesex, Holkar
>R Gilchrist Jamaica, Hyderabad
>PF Judge Middlesex, Glamorgan, Bengal
Hello! When did this happen? Wartime again I suppose. Like Balderstone,
Peter Judge keeps popping up in odd places. Do you have any dates, Aslam?
(asked he, knowing Aslam would have added that info if he had it!)
Compton, Hardstaff, Jardine and Simpson were all stationed in India during
the War and in 1944-45 played some matches for the English Services XI; in
fact Reg Simpson made his FC debut in India at age 24 in a match in Bombay
-- he was an RAF Pilot who flew out of Murraypore (?) and Palam (Delhi) --
wonder how he ended up with Sind, maybe it should be 'Sind,
Nottinghamshire' below -- he had no intention of being a FC cricketer until
then. I think Compton ended up with Holkar because CK Nayudu talked him into
it while he was rebuilding the new Holkar (ex- Central India) side. Compton
was in training at Mhow, near Indore, and was on the way back to England
when he decided to stick around for a while.
>LA King Jamaica, Bengal
>M Robinson Glamorgan, Warwickshire, Hyderabad, Madras
>RJO Meyer Somerset, West India
>RT Simpson Nottinghamshire, Sind
>SC Stayer Guyana, Bombay
>FA Tarrant Victoria, Middlesex, Patiala
Part of the Maharajah of Patiala XI from before WW I, Tarrant appears to
have beenn in his employ off-n-on till the mid-30's. He also used to play
for the 'Europeans' in the Quadrangular series -- CK Nayudu's first FC runs
were a six off Tarrant in 1916 (4th ball). Tarrant was a Wisden's CY 1908
alongside Schwarz and Vogel (better yet, one of Rick Eyre's Coodabeen XI).
He never played Test cricket, probably because the Australians didn't care
to select a chap playing for Middlesex, where he did the double 8 times
prior to WW I and in 1906 held 6 catches in an innings vs Essex. An SLA, he
rounded out his career by umpiring the first 2 Tests played in India in
1933-34 against Jardine's men (but never again as far as I can tell). Hedley
Verity was part of that team -- took 23 wickets @ 16.82 in the 3 Tests.
>PI Van der Gucht Gloucestershire, Bengal
>C Watson Jamaica, Delhi
The WI quartet (Gilchrist, King, Stayers and Watson) were imported in
1963-64, after the 1962 debacle -- Hall I assume was in Queensland by then.
That was also the time of the 8-ball experiment. But with typical Indian
Board thinking at work, they were all allocated to the strongest teams, so
the best Indian batsmen didn't get as much match practice against them as
they could otherwise have. The strong grew stronger, the West Indians had a
good holiday bowling to minnows, and it did nothing for Indian cricket.
>aslam
Cheers,
Ramaswamy
Sadiq Yusuf
In article <31bf5fd9...@news.ultranet.com>,
Ramaswamy <ra...@ultranet.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Jun 1996 08:16:41 asid...@xray.indyrad.iupui.edu (Aslam
>Siddiqui) wrote:
>
>> >Vishal
>>
>>>P.S.- Aslam may already have a complet list of foreign players who have
>>>played for India's Ranji league - I suspect that the representation was
>>>high prior to Independence.
>>
>>GEB Abell Worcestershire, North India
>>DCS Compton Middlesex, Holkar
>>R Gilchrist Jamaica, Hyderabad
>>PF Judge Middlesex, Glamorgan, Bengal
>
>Hello! When did this happen? Wartime again I suppose. Like Balderstone,
>Peter Judge keeps popping up in odd places. Do you have any dates, Aslam?
>(asked he, knowing Aslam would have added that info if he had it!)
>
No dates, but Indian Cricket mentions the fact that Compton once
scored 249* vs Bombay at Bombay in 1944-45 (hmm. He must have been a
fairly decent bat, then :-)
And that Abell made 210 for North India vs Army at Lahore in
1934-35 - which happened to be his debut. This was a record for the
highest first-class debut score in India at the time - a record
subsequently beaten by GR Vishwanath (who scored 230 in his first
appearance) and then beaten again by Amol Muzumdar (who scored 260 in
*his* debut :-)
Sadiq [ working Amol into the post :-) ] Yusuf
>
>Cheers,
>Ramaswamy
--
Sadiq Yusuf
si...@iastate.edu