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Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu (Telugu: కటాట్ ి C.K. Nayudu

కనకయయ్ ాయుడు) pronunciation (31 October Personal information
1895 – 14 November 1967) was an Indian cricketer Batting style Right-hand bat (RHB)
who served as India's first Test captain. He was
Bowling style Right-arm slow medium
born in Nagpur Mahasrashtra and died in
IndoreMadhya Pradesh. International information
National side Indian
An outstanding solid batsman, Nayudu fondly
known as CK was known for his ability as a hard Career statistics
hitter of the ball. He was the first cricketer to be Competition Tests First-class
honoured with the Padma Bhushan. Matches 7 207
Runs scored 350 11,825
Batting average 25.00 35.94
100s/50s 0/2 26/58

1 Early career Top score 81 200

2 1932 Balls bowled 858 25,798
3 Six decades in cricket Wickets 9 411
4 Notes
5 References Bowling average 42.88 29.28
6 External links 5 wickets in innings - 12
10 wickets in match - 2
Best bowling 3/40 7/44
Catches/stumpings 4 170/1
Nayudu originally spoke Telugu, but he grew up in Source: [1] (http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/597/597.html) ,
Nagpur and played almost all his cricket for Central
India. He was drafted in the school team at the age of seven, and showed promise for a bright future.

He made his first class debut in 1916 in the Bombay Triangular. For the Hindus against the Europeans, he
came in to bat at No.9 with his team tottering at 79 for 7. He blocked his first three balls and hit the fourth
for six. He played first-class cricket regularly till 1958, and returned for one last time in 1963 at the age of
68. In 1923, the ruler of Holkar invited him to Indore and made him a Captain (land and air) in his army.
Thus he received an honour of a Colonel in Holkar's Army.

Arthur Gilligan led the first MCC tour to India in the 1926-27 season. For the Hindus at Bombay Gymkhana,
Nayudu hit 153 in 116 minutes with 11 sixes. One of the sixes, off Bob Wyatt, landed on the roof of the
Gymkhana. The MCC presented him with a silver bat in recognition of that heroic innings.

India made its debut at Lord's under Col C K Nayudu . In its first Test tour of England with the Maharaja of
Porbandar as captain and Ghanshyamsinhji of Limbdi as vice-captain. Two weeks before the trip, Porbandar
dropped out on reasons of health and Limbi took over. It was just before the start of India's inaugural Test,
Nayudu was appointed captain of the Indian team as Limbdi suffered a back injury that ruled him out of the
Test.

Nayudu took part in all twenty six of the first-class matches on the tour, scoring 1,618 runs at an average of

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40.45 in the first-class matches and 1,842 overall, and taking 65 wickets. Wisden chose him as a Cricketer of
the Year the next year. Nayudu hit 32 sixes, which was the most by anyone in the season. CK's best stint
was playing at Edgbaston, he hit a ball into the River Rhea and thus into the next county.

Tall and debonair, often with a kerchief knotted jauntily round his neck, CK was popularly known for his
apparel style on field. CK's close companion Syed Mushtaq Ali known for his fearless and dashing cricket
played with CK in several matches together. Mushtaq Ali fondly called CK- a tiger on the field.

In the 1933-34 season, Douglas Jardine visited India with a formidable, though not full strength, MCC team.
For Punjab Governor's XI, Nayudu scored a hundred. He was retained as the captain of the Test series. The
first ever Test in India, held at the Bombay Gymkhana between December 15 and 18, was watched by over
100,000 spectators. India lost the series by two Tests to nil.

He is one of the few cricketers to have played the first class game in six different decades. He made his last
appearance in the Ranji Trophy in 1956-57, aged 62, scoring 52 in his last innings for Uttar Pradesh. Earlier
in the season he had made 84 against Rajasthan, striking Vinoo Mankad for two sixes. His final outing was in
a charity match in 1963-64, when he played for the Maharashtra Governor's XI against the Maharashtra
Chief Minister's XI.[1]

One of Nayudu's daughter, Chandra, wrote a book on her father, C. K. Nayudu: A Daughter Remembers. L

Padma Bhushan CK Nayudu is today known as the 'Father of the Indian Cricket'. CK Nayudu Awards are
highest reverence awards for captaincy and life time achievement categories in the Indian Cricket.

1. ^ CricInfo article (http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/columns/content/current/story/304620.html)

Mihir Bose, A History of Indian Cricket, 1990 edition

Captains galore (http://content.cricinfo.com/cricketer/content/story/143983.html)

Player Profile: C. K. Nayudu (http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/31811.html) from

Cricinfo
Cricketarchive Profile (http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/597/597.html)

Succeeded by
Preceded by Indian National Test Cricket Captain
Maharajkumar of
Inaugural 1932-1933/4
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