B. B. Nimbalkar
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B. B. Nimbalkar
| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | Indian | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | First-class | ||
| Matches | 80 | |||
| Runs scored | 4841 | |||
| Batting average | 47.93 | |||
| 100s/50s | 12/22 | |||
| Top score | 443* | |||
| Balls bowled | 4092 | |||
| Wickets | 58 | |||
| Bowling average | 40.22 | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | |||
| 10 wickets in match | - | |||
| Best bowling | 4/56 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 37/10 | |||
| Source: [1], | ||||
Bhausaheb Babasaheb Nimbalkar, Marathi(भाऊसाहेब बाबासाहेब निम्बालकर ) known as B. B. Nimbalkar (born 12 December 1919, Kolhapur, Maharashtra) was an Indian cricketer who made an Indian record of 443 not out in first-class cricket. This still is the highest score in Indian first-class cricket. Despite an impressive batting average of 56.72 in Ranji Trophy matches, and his additional abilities as a wicket-keeper and a fast-medium bowler, Nimbalkar surprisingly never played Test cricket during a first-class career that stretched from 1939/40 to 1964/65.
In 1948/49, playing for Maharashtra against Kathiawar at Pune, Nimbalkar made 443 not out, at the time second only to Don Bradman's 452 not out as the record first-class innings. He was unable to break the record because, with the total standing at 826 for 4 at the lunch interval, the Kathiawar side conceded the match; however Bradman sent a personal note to Nimbalkar saying that he considered Nimbalkar's innings better than his own.
Nimbalkar's score remains the highest by a cricketer not to have played in a Test.[1]
References
- ^ Frindall, Bill (2009). Ask Bearders. BBC Books. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-84607-880-4.
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