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Full name Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar
Born December 8, 1942, Amravati, Maharashtra
Current age 65 years 212 days
Major teams India,Maharashtra
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Relations Son - HH Kanitkar
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
2
4
0
111
65
27.75
0
1
17
0
0
0
First-class
87
133
16
5006
250
42.78
13
70
20
List A
4
2
0
9
5
4.50
0
0
2
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
87
54
1
1/29
54.00
0
0
List A
4
-
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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Career statistics
Test debut
India v West Indies at Bangalore, Nov 22-27, 1974 scorecard
Last Test
India v West Indies at Delhi, Dec 11-15, 1974 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1963/64 - 1977/78
List A span
1973/74 - 1974/75
Profile
Hemant Kanitkar came into national reckoning by a series of splendid performances
around the domestic circuit. But his international record did not come anywhere near his feats at the national level. A stocky and gritty right-hand batsman and a sound wicketkeeper, Kanitkar scored a career-best 65 in his first Test innings against West Indies at Bangalore, but successive scores of 18, 8 and 20 meant that he could not consolidate his place in the side and he was discarded for good. He remained a tower of strength for Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy in which he scored 3632 runs (43.75), with a highest score of 250 against Rajasthan in 1970-71. In a first-class career that lasted from 1963 to 1978, Kanitkar scored 5007 runs (42.79) with 13 centuries and 87 dismissals, 68 of them caught.
He is the father of Hrishikesh Kanitkar. Partab Ramchand
