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Full name | Vijay Samuel Hazare | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1915-03-11)11 March 1915 Sangli,Bombay Presidency,British India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 18 December 2004(2004-12-18) (aged 89) Vadodara,Gujarat, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium pace | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All -rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 28) | 22 June 1946 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 28 March 1953 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1934–1942 | Maharashtra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1935–1939 | Central India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1941–1961 | Baroda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1957–1958 | Holkar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricket Archive,22 October 2010 |
Vijay Samuel Hazarepronunciationⓘ (11 March 1915 – 18 December 2004) was an Indiancricketer. HecaptainedIndia in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953. In India's 25th Test match, nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status, he led India to its firstTest cricket win (and the only victory under his captaincy) in 1951–52 againstEngland atMadras, winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that began on the day that KingGeorge VI died. He received theC. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996, the highest honour bestowed byBCCI on a former player.[1]
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Hazare was born inSangli, intoMarathi Christian family,[2][3] in the thenBombay Presidency ofBritish India in 1916, one of eight children of a school teacher.
Primarily a right-handbatsman, Hazare was also a right-hand medium-pacebowler. A "shy, retiring" man (according toWisden in 1952), it was widely thought that he was not a natural captain and that his batting suffered as a result. His rival,Vijay Merchant said that the captaincy prevented Hazare from becoming India's finest batsman: "It was one of the tragedies of cricket."
Even so, Hazare's Test record is very respectable: he amassed 2,192 runs in 30 Test matches with abatting average of 47.65. His first-class record is even more impressive, with abatting average of 58.38 for his 18,740 runs. He scored 60 first-class centuries (including 7 in Tests), the fourth highest for an Indian player and 10 first-class double centuries (including six duringWorld War II, when India was the only Test cricket-playing country to continue holding its domestic first-class cricket competition without interruption).
His bowling record was more modest, and he took 595 first-classwickets (including 19 in Tests, andDonald Bradman's wicket three times) at abowling average of 24.61. On the Indian domestic circuit, Hazare played for theMaharashtra,Central India andBaroda teams.
Some of his notable achievements include:
In retirement, he was for a short while an Indian Test cricket selector. He has been honoured with a trophy in his name, theVijay Hazare Trophy, a zonal-cricket tournament in India. He died in December 2004 following prolonged illness caused byintestinalcancer.
He andJasu Patel were the first cricketers to be honoured with thePadma Shri.
Hazare was the leading run scorer of1939–40 Ranji Trophy season. His team Maharashtra won its first title in that season, they defeatedUnited Province cricket team in the final at Poona (Now Pune).[4] In1940–41 Ranji trophy he made 100 in the final and took 2 wickets. Maharashtra won the that season by defeatingMadras cricket team in the final. Since that season Maharashtra not able to won Ranji trophy again.[5]
Preceded by | Indian National Test Cricket Captain 1951/2–1952 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Indian National Test Cricket Captain 1952/3 | Succeeded by |