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'''Indian Starlets''' were a team of young [[India]]n [[cricket]]ers who played 16 [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches between 1960 and 1967.<br />
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==Tour of Pakistan, 1959-60==<br />
Seventeen players took part in a tour of [[Pakistan]] in April and May 1960. They played seven first-class matches; all were drawn.<ref>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1961 p. 890.</ref> The players, with their ages at the beginning of the tour, were:<br />
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* [[Sudhakar Adhikari]] (20)<br />
* [[Lala Amarnath]] (48) (captain in the two matches he played)<br />
* Prem Bhatia<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/24/24593/24593.html Prem Bhatia at CricketArchive]</ref> (20)<br />
* Dinabandu<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/38/38774/38774.html Dinabandu at CricketArchive]</ref> (age unknown)<br />
* [[Farokh Engineer]] (22)<br />
* [[William Ghosh]] (31)<br />
* [[Habib Ahmed]]<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39080/39080.html Habib Ahmed at CricketArchive]</ref> (21) (captain in four of the five matches he played)<br />
* Harcharan Singh<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39113/39113.html Harcharan Singh at CricketArchive]</ref> (21)<br />
* [[M. L. Jaisimha]] (21) (captain in one of the five matches he played)<br />
* [[Vaman Kumar|V. V. Kumar]] (24)<br />
* Gulshran Mehra<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39807/39807.html Gulshran Rai Mehra at CricketArchive]</ref> (22)<br />
* Madan Mehra<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39810/39810.html Madan Mehra at CricketArchive]</ref> (25)<br />
* [[Vijay Mehra (Indian cricketer)|Vijay Mehra]] (22)<br />
* [[A. G. Milkha Singh]] (18)<br />
* [[B. B. Nimbalkar]] (40)<br />
* Chatta Ramesh<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/40/40579/40579.html Chatta Ramesh at CricketArchive]</ref> (26)<br />
* [[Ponnuswami Sitaram]]<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3332/3332.html Ponnuswami Sitaram at CricketArchive]</ref> (27)<br />
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Milkha Singh was the leading batsman, with 469 runs at an average of 117.25 and three centuries.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/3/Indian_Starlets_in_Pakistan_1959-60/f_Indian_Starlets_Batting.html Indian Starlets batting 1959-60]</ref> Ghosh, Kumar and Sitaram were the most successful bowlers.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/3/Indian_Starlets_in_Pakistan_1959-60/f_Indian_Starlets_Bowling.html Indian Starlets bowling 1959-60]</ref><br />
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Apart from the experienced Amarnath, while most of the players had substantial careers in Indian domestic cricket, only Engineer, Jaisimha, Kumar, Vijay Mehra and Milkha Singh went on to play Test cricket.<br />
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==Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament==<br />
Indian Starlets played a [[friendly match]] in March 1963 against an Andhra Chief Minister's XI. It was drawn.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/25/25973.html Andhra Chief Minister's XI v Indian Starlets 1962-63]</ref><br />
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Between 1964-65 and 1967-68 Indian Starlets competed in the annual first-class [[Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament]] held in [[Hyderabad]] at [[Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad|Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium]]. They played eight matches in all, drawing the first six and losing the last two. They reached the final in 1964-65 (in which their opponents, [[Associated Cement Company cricket team|Associated Cement Company]], were declared the winners on the basis of their 253-run first innings lead)<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/27/27263.html Associated Cement Company v Indian Starlets 1964-65]</ref> and in 1966–67, when they lost to [[State Bank of India cricket team|State Bank of India]] by 16 runs.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/28/28481.html Indian Starlets v State Bank of India 1966-67]</ref><br />
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Of their 16 first-class matches, Indian Starlets drew the first 14 and lost the last two.<br />
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Indian Starlets teams also toured [[Malaysia]] in 1973 and [[Sri Lanka]] in 1978–79, but no first-class matches were played on either tour.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/0/812/Other_Matches.html |title=Other matches played by Indian Starlets |access-date=2017-09-09 |archive-date=2015-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003051149/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/0/812/Other_Matches.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/0/812/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Indian Starlets]<br />
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/3/Indian_Starlets_in_Pakistan_1959-60.html Indian Starlets in Pakistan, 1959-60]<br />
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