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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Edward Sewell: cricketer, columnist and part of the first all-India team
Pradip DholeDecember 7, 2018 10:41 AM IST
EHD Sewell’s first-class career spanned 1892-93 to 1922, and comprised 87 matches, producing 3430 runs at 24.50.
Conrad Powell Johnstone: The skipper who won the first ever Ranji Trophy match
Pradip DholeNovember 26, 2018 12:37 PM IST
An excellent all-round cricketer, Conrad Powell Johnstone led the Madras Cricket Club, Europeans and Madras in the Ranji Trophy.
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.

IND vs AUS: नाथन लियोन लगाएंगे 'शतक', गाबा टेस्ट में बन सकते हैं ये बड़े कीर्तिमान

27वां अर्धशतक जड़ भारत के लिए 6,000 टेस्ट रन बनाने वाले 11वें बल्लेबाज बने पुजारा

कोहली को पछाड़ सबसे तेज 27 टेस्ट शतक जड़ने वाले दूसरे बल्लेबाज बने स्मिथ

On This Day, In 2019: आज ही के दिन भारत ने ऑस्‍ट्रेलिया को उन्‍हीं की धरती पर टेस्‍ट सीरीज हराकर रचा था इतिहास

HBD Chetan Sharma: वर्ल्ड कप में हैट्रिक लेकर मचाई थी सनसनी, अब हैं टीम इंडिया के मुख्य चयनकर्ता