Pradip Dhole

Author: Pradip Dhole

Pradip Dhole is a retired medical practitioner with a life-long interest in cricket history and statistics.

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Thomas Masters Usborne: Family archivist, wicketkeeper for Europeans
Pradip DholeSeptember 25, 2018 2:18 PM IST
Usborne played only 5 matches, scoring 109 runs at 13.62 and effecting 7 dismissals.
Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot: Irish Civil Servant who founded Madras Cricket Club
Pradip DholeSeptember 17, 2018 10:17 AM IST
Sir Arbuthnot, who passed with distinctions in Classics and Telugu, was also Director of Public Institution and helped found Madras University, among other things.
John Lindsay Guise: The man who opened batting at Eden Gardens against MCC in 1926-27
Pradip DholeSeptember 10, 2018 10:23 AM IST
Lindsay played for Oxford and Middlesex before coming to India, where he also played in the Pentangular.
Sir Robert Daniel Richmond: The Jamaica-born Scottish who played first Madras Presidency Match
Pradip DholeSeptember 3, 2018 10:01 AM IST
Before coming to India, Richmond had played for Jamaica twice.
John Trask: Played first First-Class match in India, army doctor who died in active service
Pradip DholeAugust 28, 2018 10:11 AM IST
John Trask also played for Somerset, and was a surgeon.
Jack ‘Boss’ Meyer: Eccentric schoolmaster, Somerset cricketer, Ranji Trophy captain
Pradip DholeAugust 23, 2018 11:12 AM IST
Meyer played for Cambridge, and Somerset, and led Western India, but is remembered mostly as founder of Millfield School.
George Abell: The civil servant who was the first to score a double century on Ranji Trophy debut
Pradip DholeAugust 13, 2018 11:23 AM IST
Abell, a wicketkeeper in the match, scored the double hundred for Northern India against Army in 1934-35.
William Moule: One-Test wonder who became a judge
Pradip DholeAugust 6, 2018 11:22 AM IST
William Moule's only Test was also the first one played on English soil.
Rev. AP Wickham: Kept wickets for both sides in a First-Class match
Pradip DholeJuly 25, 2018 2:38 PM IST
Rev. AP Wickham also held the County Championship record for the biggest innings to have kept wickets too without conceding a bye.
Louis Hall: The man who carried bat for Yorkshire 14 times
Pradip DholeJuly 23, 2018 11:14 AM IST
Hall carried his bat for Yorkshire 14 times. Nobody else has done this more than 8 times.
What made Maurice Tate switch from spin to seam
Pradip DholeJuly 9, 2018 5:04 PM IST
“Maurice, tired and perhaps annoyed at the veteran batsman’s contemptuous treatment of those slow off-breaks, suddenly increased his pace and swung his body for all
Thomas Dale: A cricketer arrested for playing under an alias
Pradip DholeJune 29, 2018 10:13 PM IST
Thomas Dale changed his name to Thomas Jordan. Things did not go too well when they found out.
'The Vagabond' who kickstarted England-Australia cricket tours
Pradip DholeJune 25, 2018 7:20 PM IST
John Stanley James changed his name to Dr Stanley James, then to Julian Thomas, and wrote under the pseudonym of The Vagabond.
The third of the Don Bradman-Archie Jackson-Alec Marks triumvirate at NSW
Pradip DholeJune 18, 2018 2:30 PM IST
Alec Marks formed a trinity with Don Bradman and Archie Jackson.
Moss: Only bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings on FC debut
Pradip DholeMay 30, 2018 7:47 PM IST
Albert Moss remains the only one to take all 10 in an innings on First-Class debut. ‘Fitz’ Hinds would later take 10 as well, but