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Full name Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu
Born October 31, 1895, Nagpur, Maharashtra
Died November 14, 1967, Indore, Madhya Pradesh (aged 72 years 14 days)
Major teams India,Andhra,Central India,Central Provinces and Berar,Hindus,Holkar,Hyderabad (India),Rajputana,United Province
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Relations Brother - CL Nayudu,Brother - CR Nayudu,Brother - CS Nayudu,Son - CN Nayudu,Son - P Nayudu,Grandson - VK Nayudu
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
7
14
0
350
81
25.00
0
2
1
4
0
First-class
207
344
15
11825
200
35.94
26
58
170
1
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
7
10
858
386
9
3/40
3/40
42.88
2.69
95.3
0
0
0
First-class
207
25798
12038
411
7/44
29.28
2.79
62.7
12
2
Career statistics
Test debut
England v India at Lord's, Jun 25-28, 1932 scorecard
Last Test
England v India at The Oval, Aug 15-18, 1936 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1916/17 - 1963/64
Profile
Colonel Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, who died at Indore on November 14, aged 72, captained India in their first Test match with England. That was at Lord's in 1932 when, despite a painful hand injury received when fielding, Nayudu made top score, 40, in the first innings. With six centuries, the highest of which was 162 from the Warwickshire bowling, he headed the batting averages for all matches with 37.59 and took 79 wickets. He also played in three Tests against England in 1933-34 and three in the tour of 1936, when he again exceeded 1,000 runs and dismissed 51 batsmen in first-class fixtures. As a small boy he played for the Hislop Collegiate High School, Nagpur, whom he captained, and while still at school appeared for Modi, of which club he also became captain. In 1926-27 at Bombay, he gained prominence by hitting 153 (including eleven 6's and thirteen 4's) out of 187 in just over a hundred minutes for Hindus against A. E. R. Gilligan's M.C.C. team. Though never on the winning side in a Test match, he helped Vizianagram to inflict by 14 runs the only defeat of the tour upon D. R. Jardine's powerful M.C.C. side in 1933-34, taking four wickets for 21 runs in the second innings. Tall and well proportioned, Nayudu was specially strong in driving, bowled accurately at slow-medium pace and was a fine fielder. He also shone at hockey and association football.
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