Published: Dec 15, 2014, 03:36 PM (IST)
Edited: Dec 22, 2014, 12:44 PM (IST)
According to a report published in The Cricketer of July 8, 1922, Ranjitsinhji made a hat-trick of centuries in a match during his Cambridge days.
He made 128 for Cassandra on the second morning of a two-day match against Saffron Walden on Parker’s Piece. He then turned up for the Basinettes — another Cambridge club — and scored 132 on the same day, and rounded off his day’s work with a 150 for another team against Christ’s & Emmanuel on their pitch!
Ranji was a legendary batsman. He scored 24,692 runs, at an average of 56.37, and 72 hundreds in First-Class cricket. And in Test matches, he hit 989 runs from 15 Tests at 44.95.
And this was a man who had accidentally lost his right eye in 1915 in a shooting accident!
