C R RANGACHARI


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C R RANGACHARI
(14 Apr 1916 - 9 Oct 1993)

One of the quickest bowlers in the early days of Indian cricket, Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari was a right arm medium pacer with a little whippy round-arm action, capable of unleashing good outswingers...

CRR started with the Madras cricket league in 1932 playing for Chepauk United Club, and later for Triplicane Cricket Club where he formed an effective duo with M. J. Gopalan...

His Ranji career started in 1938. An excellent fielder at silly mid-off, he formed a nice combination with the team's spinner A.G. Ram Singh...

CRR played 4 Tests for India, two each against Australia (away) and West Indies (home).

His Test debut against Australia at Adelaide in 1947-48 saw him dismissing Neil Harvey, Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall and Ian Johnson. Wicketless in the next Test, CRR returned from down under with figures of 4 for 141...

His career best Test bowling, 5 for 107, came in his next Test against West Indies at Delhi, dismissing Allan Rae, Jeff Stollmeyer and George Headley in his first 19 balls, for just one run. He played the next Test at Bombay, and with no wickets to his name, CRR was relegated to the history books of Indian Test cricket...

With a fairly successful domestic career of 199 wickets at 26.11 a piece, 480 runs and 42 catches from 62 games, he could have with a little more luck, made his mark at the highest level had it not been for the War which perhaps took away his best playing days...

He continued playing for Madras till the 53/54 season. Later on he managed Madras/Tamil Nadu and South Zone teams several times, and was a state selector as well...

CRR worked in the police department and retired as a Deputy Superintendent Of Police...

His son Commandur Rangachari Vijayaraghavan has been an umpire in One Day Internationals and first class cricket, and as a third umpire in Test matches, including the famous Chennai Test against Steve Waugh's Australia in 2000-01...


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