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Hitendra Narayan

2022-10-08T11:40:48Z

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{{Short description|Indian cricketer (1890–1920)}}
{{good article}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2013}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Hitendra Narayan
| image =
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption =
| fullname = Kumar Hitendra Singh Narayan
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1890|07|1}}
| birth_place = [[Cooch Behar]], Bengal, India
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1920|11|7|1890|07|01}}
| death_place = [[Darjeeling]], Bengal, India
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| family = [[Jitendra Narayan]] (brother)
| club1 = [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]]
| year1 = 1909–1910
| club2 = Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI
| year2 = 1918–1919
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 7
| runs1 = 60
| bat avg1 = 6.66
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 16
| deliveries1 = 90
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 0/6
| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3730/3730.html CricketArchive
| date = 16 October
| year = 2017
}}
'''[[Maharaja#Derived style for princes of the blood|Maharaj Kumar]] Hitendra Singh Narayan''' (1 July 1890 – 7 November 1920), commonly [[anglicised]] as '''Prince Hitendra Narayan''', played [[first-class cricket|first-class]] [[cricket]] for [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] in 1909 and 1910. He later played in first-class matches for teams brought together by his brother, the Maharaja of Cooch Behar.

Known variously in his cricket career as "Kumar Narayan" or "Hitendra Narayan", he was educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Cambridge University]] and was a forceful right-handed batsman. His four first-class matches for Somerset in 1909 and 1910 were not successful, with a top score of just 16 in his first game, against the [[Australian cricket team in England in 1909|1909 Australians]]. In 1918, he played three matches for his brother's scratch side against teams composed largely of expatriate Englishmen. The matches have first-class status although all three were of only two-days' duration; Narayan was not successful in any of them as a batsman.

==Early life==
Hitendra Singh Narayan was born in [[Cooch Behar]], [[Bengal]], [[India]], on 1 July 1890.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/31796.html |title=Player profile: Prince Hitendra Narayan |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=17 October 2017}}</ref> He was the youngest of four sons born to [[Nripendra Narayan]], the Maharaja of [[Cooch Behar State]].<ref name="royal">{{cite web |url=http://coochbehar.nic.in/HTMfiles/royal_history.html |title=Royal History of Cooch Behar |publisher=Cooch Behar District |access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref> The Maharaja was a keen sportsman, and funded at least three cricket teams in India, as well as hosting [[polo]], [[horse racing]] and [[wrestling]] on his palatial estate.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-article/royalty-cricket-cooch-behar-story/132593 |title=Royalty, cricket and the Cooch Behar story |last=Dasgupta |first=Shamya |work=[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden India]] |date=31 October 2014 |access-date=17 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018013535/http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-article/royalty-cricket-cooch-behar-story/132593 |archive-date=18 October 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A history of the [[Eden Gardens]] cricket ground in [[Kolkata]] describes Nripendra as "a patron of cricket without parallel in east India."<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dqPDBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA34 |title=Eden Gardens Legend & Romance |last=Mukherji |first=Raju |publisher=Kolkatatoday.com |year=2015 |page=34}}</ref> Two of Hitendra Narayan's older brothers, [[Jitendra Narayan]] and [[Victor Narayan]], played [[first-class cricket]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/38/38596/38596.html |title=Player profile: Jitendra Narayan |website=CricketArchive |access-date=17 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/45/45540/45540.html |title=Player profile: Prince Victor |website=CricketArchive |access-date=17 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Hitendra Narayan was tutored as a child by [[John Daniell (cricketer)|John Daniell]], an English sportsman who had played top-level [[rugby union]] and [[cricket]].<ref>{{cite book | title = Somerset Cricketers 1882 – 1914 |last=Hill |first=Stephen |year=2016 |publisher=Halsgrove |location=Wellington, Somerset |isbn=978-0-85704-291-0 |pages=190–191}}</ref> Narayan continued his education in England, first at Farnborough School,<ref name="princes">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.36665/2015.36665.Ruling-Princes-And-Chiefs-Notables-And-Principal-Officials-Of-The-Punjab-Native-States#page/n35/mode/2up |title=Ruling Princes And Chiefs, Notables And Principal Officials Of The Punjab Native States |year=1918 |publisher=Government of Punjab |page=28}}</ref> and then [[Eton College]], where he enjoyed some sporting success, being school junior champion in the [[high jump]], and runner-up in the [[long jump]]. He went up to [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]], where he played cricket for his college, but did not make it into the university team.<ref name="hill">{{cite book | title = Somerset Cricketers 1882 – 1914 |last=Hill |first=Stephen |year=2016 |publisher=Halsgrove |location=Wellington, Somerset |isbn=978-0-85704-291-0 |pages=323–324}}</ref>

==County cricket==
Daniell returned to cricket in 1908, rejoining [[Somerset County Cricket Club]] as [[Captain (cricket)|captain]], and that year, Narayan had great success as a batsman for the amateur "Somerset Stragglers" cricket team.<ref name="obit">{{cite book |title=[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1921]] |editor-last=Pardon |editor-first=Sydney |editor-link=Sydney Pardon |edition=58 |year=1921 |publisher=John Wisden & Co. Ltd |chapter=Deaths in 1920 |page=231}}</ref> Contemporary reports eulogised his batting,<ref name="hill"/> though in his history of Somerset cricket, [[Peter Roebuck]] includes Narayan in his "litany of incompetents".<ref name="roebuck">{{Cite book | title = From Sammy to Jimmy: The Official History of Somerset County Cricket Club| last=Roebuck | first=Peter |authorlink=Peter Roebuck | year = 1991 | publisher = Partridge Press |location=[[London]] | isbn = 185225-0852 |pages=106–7}}</ref> He made scores of 104 and 103 for the Stragglers in one drawn match against the Devon Dumplings, while another time, he scored 99 and 91 against [[Incogniti]].<ref name="obit"/> The following season, he was given his debut in a match against the touring [[Australia national cricket team|Australians]] on 10 June 1909, scoring three runs in the first innings and sixteen in the second in a low-scoring loss for Somerset. In the second innings, he was one of only two batsmen to reach double figures for the county.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7863.html |title=Somerset v Australians: Australia in British Isles 1909 |website=CricketArchive |access-date=16 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Narayan played in that match due to special dispensation from the Australians, as he had not yet qualified for Somerset. His batting in the match was praised in a letter in ''[[The Sportsman (1865 newspaper)|The Sportsman]]'', especially his "fine defensive game under most trying conditions".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001055/19090617/028/0001 |title=Notes on the game |work=[[The Sportsman (1865 newspaper)|The Sportsman]] |date=17 June 1909 |location=London |page=1 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref> He appeared later in the year as a substitute fielder against [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=somelib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS235600162&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 |title=Cricket |work=The Times |issue=39054 |date=2 September 1909 |location=London |page=14 |via=Gale |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In 1910, Narayan qualified for Somerset on residency grounds.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000407/19100401/016/0005 |title=Cricket |work=Western Gazette |date=1 April 1910 |page=5 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref> At the time, Somerset were suffering financial problems, and selected players based on how little they could pay them, rather than purely on their ability.<ref name="roebuck"/> A Somerset cricket historian, [[David Foot (journalist)|David Foot]], suggested that Somerset also "were susceptible to exotic grandeur and haughty lineage".<ref>{{Cite book | title = Sunshine, Sixes and Cider: The History of Somerset Cricket | last=Foot | first=David | year = 1986 | publisher = [[David & Charles]] |location=[[Newton Abbot]], [[Devon]] | isbn = 0-7153-8890-8 |page=62}}</ref> Narayan played three [[County Championship]] matches for Somerset, generally as a lower-order batsman; against [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]] he scored two and three,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8201.html |title=Kent v Somerset: County Championship 1910 |website=CricketArchive |access-date=16 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> against [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]], fourteen and six,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8207.html |title=Surrey v Somerset: County Championship 1910 |website=CricketArchive |access-date=16 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> while against [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]] he opened the batting in the first innings, but scored just one run.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8234.html |title=Gloucestershire v Somerset: County Championship 1910 |website=CricketArchive |access-date=16 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Somerset lost two of the matches, and drew the other – that season they finished bottom of the County Championship without winning a single match.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/Tables/0/County_Championship_1910.html |title=County Championship 1910 Table |website=CricketArchive |access-date=17 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> In ''Somerset Cricketers 1882 – 1914'', Stephen Hill suggests that Narayan grew bored of the novelty of county cricket and left in 1911, returning to India.<ref name="hill"/>

==Later life==
He was commissioned as an Honorary Lieutenant on 15 October 1914 in the [[Indian Army during World War I#Indian Expeditionary Force A|Indian Expeditionary Force]] during the [[First World War]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28939 |supp=4 |date=15 October 1914 |page=8237}}</ref> initially as part of the Dehra Dun Brigade, and later the Garhwal Brigade. He was posted as a [[Staff (military)|staff officer]] to the [[general officer commanding]]. On 22 June 1915, he was [[mentioned in dispatches]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29200 |supp=3 |date=22 June 1915 |page=5980}}</ref> for his role in the [[Battle of Neuve Chapelle]]. He was injured on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] in 1915 and spent the rest of the war in India.<ref name="princes"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lafayette.org.uk/coo2805.html |title=Sitters from India: 1901 |publisher=Lafayette Negative Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum |access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref> He later served as Military Secretary to [[Bhupinder Singh of Patiala]].<ref name="princes"/>

His father had died in 1911, and his oldest brother, [[Rajendra Narayan|Rajendra]] had succeeded him as Maharaja, though he only lived two more years before succumbing to illness, and another brother, Jitendra, ascended to the throne.<ref name="royal"/> He continued his father's tradition of sporting patronage, and the "Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI" played five first-class matches between November 1917 and January 1919.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/0/914/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-class matches played by Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI |website=CricketArchive |access-date=18 October 2017 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019003500/https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/0/914/First-Class_Matches.html |archive-date=19 October 2017}}</ref> Hitendra played in three of these matches, though with little success; he scored fifteen runs at an average of 7.50.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3730/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class batting and fielding for each team by Prince Hitendra Narayan |website=CricketArchive |access-date=18 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> He died from influenza on 7 November 1920, in [[Darjeeling]].<ref name="hill"/>

==References==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Narayan, Kumar}}
[[Category:1890 births]]
[[Category:1920 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian cricketers]]
[[Category:Somerset cricketers]]
[[Category:People educated at Eton College]]
[[Category:Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:Deaths from Spanish flu]]
[[Category:Cricketers from West Bengal]]

Hitendra Narayan

2022-10-08T11:40:48Z

2401:4900:3BF2:AF18:71D3:E92D:8435:6B67:

{{Short description|Indian cricketer (1890–1920)}}
{{good article}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Hitendra Narayan
| image =
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption =
| fullname = Kumar Hitendra Singh Narayan
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1890|07|1}}
| birth_place = [[Cooch Behar]], Bengal, India
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1920|11|7|1890|07|01}}
| death_place = [[Darjeeling]], Bengal, India
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| family = [[Jitendra Narayan]] (brother)
| club1 = [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]]
| year1 = 1909–1910
| club2 = Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI
| year2 = 1918–1919
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 7
| runs1 = 60
| bat avg1 = 6.66
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 16
| deliveries1 = 90
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 0/6
| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3730/3730.html CricketArchive
| date = 16 October
| year = 2017
}}
'''[[Maharaja#Derived style for princes of the blood|Maharaj Kumar]] Hitendra Singh Narayan''' (1 July 1890 – 7 November 1920), commonly [[anglicised]] as '''Prince Hitendra Narayan''', played [[first-class cricket|first-class]] [[cricket]] for [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] in 1909 and 1910. He later played in first-class matches for teams brought together by his brother, the Maharaja of Cooch Behar.

Known variously in his cricket career as "Kumar Narayan" or "Hitendra Narayan", he was educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Cambridge University]] and was a forceful right-handed batsman. His four first-class matches for Somerset in 1909 and 1910 were not successful, with a top score of just 16 in his first game, against the [[Australian cricket team in England in 1909|1909 Australians]]. In 1918, he played three matches for his brother's scratch side against teams composed largely of expatriate Englishmen. The matches have first-class status although all three were of only two-days' duration; Narayan was not successful in any of them as a batsman.

==Early life==
Hitendra Singh Narayan was born in [[Cooch Behar]], [[Bengal]], [[India]], on 1 July 1890.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/31796.html |title=Player profile: Prince Hitendra Narayan |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=17 October 2022}}</ref> He was the youngest of four sons born to [[Nripendra Narayan]], the Maharaja of [[Cooch Behar State]].<ref name="royal">{{cite web |url=http://coochbehar.nic.in/HTMfiles/royal_history.html |title=Royal History of Cooch Behar |publisher=Cooch Behar District |access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref> The Maharaja was a keen sportsman, and funded at least three cricket teams in India, as well as hosting [[polo]], [[horse racing]] and [[wrestling]] on his palatial estate.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-article/royalty-cricket-cooch-behar-story/132593 |title=Royalty, cricket and the Cooch Behar story |last=Dasgupta |first=Shamya |work=[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden India]] |date=31 October 2014 |access-date=17 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018013535/http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-article/royalty-cricket-cooch-behar-story/132593 |archive-date=18 October 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A history of the [[Eden Gardens]] cricket ground in [[Kolkata]] describes Nripendra as "a patron of cricket without parallel in east India."<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dqPDBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA34 |title=Eden Gardens Legend & Romance |last=Mukherji |first=Raju |publisher=Kolkatatoday.com |year=2015 |page=34}}</ref> Two of Hitendra Narayan's older brothers, [[Jitendra Narayan]] and [[Victor Narayan]], played [[first-class cricket]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/38/38596/38596.html |title=Player profile: Jitendra Narayan |website=CricketArchive |access-date=17 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/45/45540/45540.html |title=Player profile: Prince Victor |website=CricketArchive |access-date=17 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Hitendra Narayan was tutored as a child by [[John Daniell (cricketer)|John Daniell]], an English sportsman who had played top-level [[rugby union]] and [[cricket]].<ref>{{cite book | title = Somerset Cricketers 1882 – 1914 |last=Hill |first=Stephen |year=2016 |publisher=Halsgrove |location=Wellington, Somerset |isbn=978-0-85704-291-0 |pages=190–191}}</ref> Narayan continued his education in England, first at Farnborough School,<ref name="princes">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.36665/2015.36665.Ruling-Princes-And-Chiefs-Notables-And-Principal-Officials-Of-The-Punjab-Native-States#page/n35/mode/2up |title=Ruling Princes And Chiefs, Notables And Principal Officials Of The Punjab Native States |year=1918 |publisher=Government of Punjab |page=28}}</ref> and then [[Eton College]], where he enjoyed some sporting success, being school junior champion in the [[high jump]], and runner-up in the [[long jump]]. He went up to [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]], where he played cricket for his college, but did not make it into the university team.<ref name="hill">{{cite book | title = Somerset Cricketers 1882 – 1914 |last=Hill |first=Stephen |year=2016 |publisher=Halsgrove |location=Wellington, Somerset |isbn=978-0-85704-291-0 |pages=323–324}}</ref>

==County cricket==
Daniell returned to cricket in 1908, rejoining [[Somerset County Cricket Club]] as [[Captain (cricket)|captain]], and that year, Narayan had great success as a batsman for the amateur "Somerset Stragglers" cricket team.<ref name="obit">{{cite book |title=[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1921]] |editor-last=Pardon |editor-first=Sydney |editor-link=Sydney Pardon |edition=58 |year=1921 |publisher=John Wisden & Co. Ltd |chapter=Deaths in 1920 |page=231}}</ref> Contemporary reports eulogised his batting,<ref name="hill"/> though in his history of Somerset cricket, [[Peter Roebuck]] includes Narayan in his "litany of incompetents".<ref name="roebuck">{{Cite book | title = From Sammy to Jimmy: The Official History of Somerset County Cricket Club| last=Roebuck | first=Peter |authorlink=Peter Roebuck | year = 1991 | publisher = Partridge Press |location=[[London]] | isbn = 185225-0852 |pages=106–7}}</ref> He made scores of 104 and 103 for the Stragglers in one drawn match against the Devon Dumplings, while another time, he scored 99 and 91 against [[Incogniti]].<ref name="obit"/> The following season, he was given his debut in a match against the touring [[Australia national cricket team|Australians]] on 10 June 1909, scoring three runs in the first innings and sixteen in the second in a low-scoring loss for Somerset. In the second innings, he was one of only two batsmen to reach double figures for the county.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7863.html |title=Somerset v Australians: Australia in British Isles 1909 |website=CricketArchive |access-date=16 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Narayan played in that match due to special dispensation from the Australians, as he had not yet qualified for Somerset. His batting in the match was praised in a letter in ''[[The Sportsman (1865 newspaper)|The Sportsman]]'', especially his "fine defensive game under most trying conditions".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001055/19090617/028/0001 |title=Notes on the game |work=[[The Sportsman (1865 newspaper)|The Sportsman]] |date=17 June 1909 |location=London |page=1 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref> He appeared later in the year as a substitute fielder against [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=somelib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS235600162&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 |title=Cricket |work=The Times |issue=39054 |date=2 September 1909 |location=London |page=14 |via=Gale |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In 1910, Narayan qualified for Somerset on residency grounds.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000407/19100401/016/0005 |title=Cricket |work=Western Gazette |date=1 April 1910 |page=5 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref> At the time, Somerset were suffering financial problems, and selected players based on how little they could pay them, rather than purely on their ability.<ref name="roebuck"/> A Somerset cricket historian, [[David Foot (journalist)|David Foot]], suggested that Somerset also "were susceptible to exotic grandeur and haughty lineage".<ref>{{Cite book | title = Sunshine, Sixes and Cider: The History of Somerset Cricket | last=Foot | first=David | year = 1986 | publisher = [[David & Charles]] |location=[[Newton Abbot]], [[Devon]] | isbn = 0-7153-8890-8 |page=62}}</ref> Narayan played three [[County Championship]] matches for Somerset, generally as a lower-order batsman; against [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]] he scored two and three,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8201.html |title=Kent v Somerset: County Championship 1910 |website=CricketArchive |access-date=16 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> against [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]], fourteen and six,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8207.html |title=Surrey v Somerset: County Championship 1910 |website=CricketArchive |access-date=16 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> while against [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]] he opened the batting in the first innings, but scored just one run.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8234.html |title=Gloucestershire v Somerset: County Championship 1910 |website=CricketArchive |access-date=16 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Somerset lost two of the matches, and drew the other – that season they finished bottom of the County Championship without winning a single match.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/Tables/0/County_Championship_1910.html |title=County Championship 1910 Table |website=CricketArchive |access-date=17 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> In ''Somerset Cricketers 1882 – 1914'', Stephen Hill suggests that Narayan grew bored of the novelty of county cricket and left in 1911, returning to India.<ref name="hill"/>

==Later life==
He was commissioned as an Honorary Lieutenant on 15 October 1914 in the [[Indian Army during World War I#Indian Expeditionary Force A|Indian Expeditionary Force]] during the [[First World War]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28939 |supp=4 |date=15 October 1914 |page=8237}}</ref> initially as part of the Dehra Dun Brigade, and later the Garhwal Brigade. He was posted as a [[Staff (military)|staff officer]] to the [[general officer commanding]]. On 22 June 1915, he was [[mentioned in dispatches]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29200 |supp=3 |date=22 June 1915 |page=5980}}</ref> for his role in the [[Battle of Neuve Chapelle]]. He was injured on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] in 1915 and spent the rest of the war in India.<ref name="princes"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lafayette.org.uk/coo2805.html |title=Sitters from India: 1901 |publisher=Lafayette Negative Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum |access-date=18 October 2022}}</ref> He later served as Military Secretary to [[Bhupinder Singh of Patiala]].<ref name="princes"/>

His father had died in 1911, and his oldest brother, [[Rajendra Narayan|Rajendra]] had succeeded him as Maharaja, though he only lived two more years before succumbing to illness, and another brother, Jitendra, ascended to the throne.<ref name="royal"/> He continued his father's tradition of sporting patronage, and the "Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI" played five first-class matches between November 1917 and January 1919.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/0/914/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-class matches played by Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI |website=CricketArchive |access-date=18 October 2017 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019003500/https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/0/914/First-Class_Matches.html |archive-date=19 October 2022}}</ref> Hitendra played in three of these matches, though with little success; he scored fifteen runs at an average of 7.50.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3730/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class batting and fielding for each team by Prince Hitendra Narayan |website=CricketArchive |access-date=18 October 2017 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> He died from influenza on 7 November 1920, in [[Darjeeling]].<ref name="hill"/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Narayan, Kumar}}
[[Category:1890 births]]
[[Category:1920 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian cricketers]]
[[Category:Somerset cricketers]]
[[Category:People educated at Eton College]]
[[Category:Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:Deaths from Spanish flu]]
[[Category:Cricketers from West Bengal]]