bapu nadkarni Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
bapu nadkarni is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Rameshchandra Gangaram Nadkarni
Born
April 04, 1933, Nasik, Maharashtra
Died
January 17, 2020, Mumbai, (aged 86 years old)
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Playing Role
Allrounder
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 41 | - | - | - |
Inn | 67 | - | - | - |
Runs | 1414 | - | - | - |
Avg | 25.71 | - | - | - |
SR | 0.0 | - | - | - |
HS | 122 | - | - | - |
NO | 12 | - | - | - |
100s | 1 | - | - | - |
50s | 7 | - | - | - |
4s | 80 | - | - | - |
6s | 2 | - | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 41 | - | - | - |
Inn | 65 | - | - | - |
Balls | 9023 | - | - | - |
Runs | 2559 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 88 | - | - | - |
BBI | 43 / 6 | - | - | - |
BBM | 122 / 11 | - | - | - |
Eco | 1.7 | - | - | - |
Avg | 29.08 | - | - | - |
5W | 4 | - | - | - |
10W | 1 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- India
- Maharashtra
- Mumbai
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Nadkarni's cricket career started with the Rohinton Baria Trophy where he represented Pune University in 1950/51. He made his first-class debut for Maharashtra next year and his first century came against Bombay two years later. In that game, Nadkarni scored an unbeaten 103 and also added 103 for the last wicket with Sadashiv Patil.
He got lucky when he was picked to play New Zealand in Delhi in 1955/56. He got this break only after Vinoo Mankad decided to give himself rest for that match. He made an unbeaten 68 but remained wicketless even though he bowled 57 overs in the match. When Mankad came back, Nadkarni was left out of the side. However, he was made the captain of Maharashtra the same year.
Nadkarni was famous for bowling accurate line and lengths, making it difficult for the batsmen to score off him. His economy rate of 1.67 in Tests is one of the lowest ever. In the 1960/61 series against Pakistan, his bowling figures were exceptional: 32-24-23-0 in Kanpur and 34-24-24-1 in Delhi. However, if that was not enough, he went on to record the best economy rate in a Test innings soon after.
These record figures came against England in Madras (now Chennai) in 1963/64. At the end of day three, his figures read 29-26-3-0. He finally finished with figures of 32-27-5-0 and bowled a record 21 consecutive maidens or 131 dot balls in that spell. His record stands even today. In the final game of the series, he made 52* and 122*, his only hundred in Tests.
In his next game against Australia in Chennai, he produced his best bowling performance, taking 5/31 and 6/91 in the match. With the emergence of Bishen Singh Bedi, Nadkarni was dropped from the tour of England in 1967. He was, however, selected for the tour of New Zealand and picked up his career-best 6/43, helping India win the game in Wellington. He announced his retirement from first-class cricket after that trip.
Nadkarni played 192 first-class games and made 8880 runs at an average of 40.36. He also took 500 first-class wickets during the course of his career, averaging just 21.37.
By Sidhant Maheshwari
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
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