Pananmal Punjabi, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pananmal Punjabi

Indian cricketer

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1921

Date of Death: 04-Oct-2011

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Pananmal Punjabi

  • Pananmal Hotchand Punjabi pronunciation (20 September 1921 – 4 October 2011) was an Indian cricketer who played in five Tests in 1955.
  • He was born in Karachi. A right-handed opening batsman, Punjabi had a long but somewhat intermittent first-class cricket career, starting with two matches for Sind before partition and resuming more regularly from 1951 for Gujarat.
  • In the 1953-54 season, he scored three centuries in three matches and was then picked for the tour to Pakistan the following season, 1954–55.
  • He opened the batting in all five Tests with Pankaj Roy, and scored 164 runs, the fourth highest aggregate for the team.
  • But his highest was only 33 and the series consisted largely of defensive cricket with all Tests drawn, the first time this had happened in a five-match series.
  • He played on in Indian domestic cricket until 1959-60, scoring his highest score, an undefeated 224, in his penultimate game, but was never selected again for Test cricket.
  • Despite his name, Punjabi came from Karachi, spoke Sindhi, represented Gujarat for most of his first class career, and was employed as a supervisor in Burmah Shell.

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