Kanwar Rai Singh

Kanwar Rai Singh Biography

Gifted with the ability to hit the ball hard and bowl probing out-swingers, Kanwar Rai Singh had the potential to make it big. Unfortunately, because of his duties at the frontier, he played a mere 38 First-Class matches over a career-spanning two decades. His numbers, 1,758 runs at 30 and 31 wickets at 33, make sorry reading.

Rai Singh had a two-season peak, in 1945-46 and 1946-47, when he scored 661 runs at 51. However, that was not enough for him to merit a place in the squad for India’s 1947-48 tour of Australia. However, Vijay Merchant, Rusi Modi, Mushtaq Ali, and Fazal Mahmood all pulled out of the tour for different reasons; that won Rai Singh a spot on the Australia tour, though it might have had to do something with the fact that he was a distant cousin of Yuvraj of Patiala.

He became a popular figure in Australia, but it was more for the fact that he had a turban for every shade of the spectrum. He played one Test, the third of the series, where he scored 2 and 24. The second innings was a blinder, scored off only 25 balls, and it included the first six by an Indian in the series. The MCG crowd cheered him loudly — he was, after all, wearing a spectacular salmon-pink turban.

He later became a Captain in Patiala Army, and was promoted to Major in Sikhli Regiment. He passed away at 71.

Abhishek Mukherjee

Kanwar Rai Singh Batting & Fielding Averages

Career	M	In	R	NO	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct	St
Test	1	2	26	0	24	13.00	32	81.25	0	0	1	1	--	--
ODIs	0	--	--	--		--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
T20s	0	--	--	--		--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
World Cup	0	--	--	--		--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--

Kanwar Rai Singh Bowling Averages

Career	M	B	R	W	Avg	EC	SR	5WI	10WM	BBI	BBM
Test	1	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
ODIs	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
T20s	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
World Cup	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--		--

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