K. R. SINGH & K. C. IBRAHIM



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Today marks the anniversary of two forgotten names in Indian cricketing history - K. R. Singh and K. C. Ibrahim...

K. R. SINGH
(24 Feb 1922 – 12 Nov 1993)

The fearless and aggressive right-hand batsman from the princely state of Darkoti (now in Himachal Pradesh), Kanwar Rai Singh, began his cricketing career in the Bombay Pentangular 1940-41 season...

Regarded as a surprising selection for India's first ever tour of Australia in 1947-48, he played the only Test of his international career at the MCG, Melbourne, scoring 2 and 24...

On the domestic front he scored 1,778 runs @30.13 with 4 hundreds and 7 fifties, and 21 wickets @33.33 in 38 matches representing South Punjab, Maharaja of Patiala's XI and Services at different points in time...

He became a Captain in Patiala Army, and was later promoted to Major in the Sikhli Regiment...

His prioritization of military duty over his cricketing pastime explains the total of just 38 first class appearances in a career spanning over two decades...

He died of cardiac arrest this day at Dehra Dun, 1993. He was 71...

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K. C. IBRAHIM
(26 Jan 1919 – 12 Nov 2007)

Bombay born Khanmohammed Cassumbhoy Ibrahim, the cricketer who wanted to become a mathematician, was a right-handed top order batsman and an occasional opener, who made his Test debut at Delhi against the touring West Indies in 1948-49, playing all his four Tests for India in that series...

He literally burst on to the scene opening with Vinoo Mankad, scoring 85 and 44. However, he could muster just 40 runs in his next six innings, thus unfortunately bringing the curtains down on his international career...

He scored 169 runs in four Tests @21.12 with the solitary fifty (85) as his highest...

A prolific scorer for Bombay, Ibrahim had struck a purple patch in the 1947-48 season when he scored 1171 runs at 167.29, including four hundreds, a record which won him the Indian Cricketer of the Year award for the season. He started the season with scores of 218*, 36*, 234*, 77* and 144, a total of 709 runs without being dismissed...

He scored 4716 runs from 60 first class games @61.24 with 14 hundreds and 22 fifties, highest being 250...

Having tied the wedlock with a close relative of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Ibrahim moved to Karachi in 1950. He breathed his last in the same city, this day, in 2007, aged 88...

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