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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Naoomal Jeoomal
| image =
| caption =
| fullname = Naoomal Jeoomal Makhija
| birth_date = {{birth date|1904|04|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Karachi]],<br />[[Bombay Presidency]],<br />[[British India]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|07|28|1904|04|17|df=yes}}
|death_place = [[Bombay]] (now [[Mumbai]]), [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
| heightft = 5
| heightinch = 9
| batting = Right-hand bat
| bowling = Leg-break bowler
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]]
| matches1 = 3
| runs1 = 108
| bat avg1 = 27.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 43
| deliveries1 = 108
| wickets1 = 2
| bowl avg1 = 34.00
| fivefor1 = -
| tenfor1 = -
| best bowling1 = 1/4
| catches/stumpings1= 0
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2 = 84
| runs2 = 4,140
| bat avg2 = 32.59
| 100s/50s2 = 7/16
| top score2 = 203*
| deliveries2 = 5102
| wickets2 = 108
| bowl avg2 = 27.54
| fivefor2 = 6
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 5/18
| catches/stumpings2= 43
| country = India
| international = true
| internationalspan = 1932-1934

| testdebutfor = India
| testdebutagainst = England
| testcap = 5
| testdebutdate = 25 June
| testdebutyear = 1932
| lasttestdate = 10 February
| lasttestfor =
| lasttestagainst = England
| lasttestyear = 1934

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/31939.html ESPNcricinfo
| date = 9 May
| year = 2020
}}

'''Naoomal Jeoomal Makhija''' {{Audio|Naoomal Jeoomal.ogg|pronunciation}} (17 April 1904, [[Karachi]] – 28 July 1980, [[Mumbai|Bombay]]) was an Indian cricketer, who was [[Indian cricket team|India's]] first opening [[batsman]] in [[Test cricket]].<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/31939.html |title=Naoomal Jeoomal|accessdate=9 May 2020 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref>

Naoomal Jeoomal scored 33 and 25 opening India's innings in their [[Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1932#Test_summary|first ever Test]] at [[Lord's]] in 1932. He also shared stands of 39 and 41 with his opening partner [[Janardan Navle]] in the two innings. Naoomal was a diminutive, defensive batsman whose strong point was the [[Cricket terminology#C|cut]]. He made 1,297 runs in the tour, playing in all the 26 first class matches, a decent performance{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} considering that he had played only on matting wickets till then. [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]] even commented on Jeoomal's fielding abilities.

When [[English cricket team|England]] returned the visit in 1933–34, Jeoomal missed the first Test. He scored 2 and 43 at [[Eden Gardens|Calcutta]], but in [[M. A. Chidambaram Stadium|Madras]], he was hit on the face by [[Nobby Clark (cricketer)|Nobby Clark]]. The ball left a half-inch cut across the left eye. The injury ended his innings and he did not play another Test. In his first match in the [[Ranji Trophy]], for [[Sindh cricket team|Sind]] against Western India in 1934–35, he scored 63 and 53, despite being hit by [[Amar Singh (cricketer)|Amar Singh]] and [[Ladha Ramji]], and took 5/78 and 3/52 in bowling. He played in the Sind Pentangular matches from 1922 till 1946, scoring 1,993 runs (average 47) with six hundreds.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

His highest score in first-class cricket was a 203* scored in four and a half hours for Sind against [[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]] in 1938–39.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16861.html |title=Match Scorecard|accessdate=9 May 2020 |work=Cricket Archive}}</ref> The Sind total of 326 was at the time the second lowest completed first class innings to include a double hundred.

He coached [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]] in the late 1950s and became national selector from 1957. He moved to India in 1971.

Jeoomal was the oldest Indian Test cricketer to attend the Golden Jubilee Test in 1980, which marked the fiftieth year of the founding of [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]]. The oldest living cricketer [[Cota Ramaswami]] was absent.

'''Note''' : Jeoomal's obituaries in [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden Almanack]] and [[Wisden Cricket Monthly]] both give his date of death as 18 July.

==Early life==
He was born on April 17, 1904 in [[Karachi]], [[Sindh]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Naoomal Jeoomal PLAYER BIONEW|url=https://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/players/41326-makhija-naoomal-jeoomal-playerprofile|website=sports.ndtv.com|publisher=NDTV Convergence Limited|accessdate=7 December 2016}}</ref>
He was the son of head clerk of a private company. He was a matriculation. He made his First-Class debut against Arthur Gilligan's MCC in 1926-27 for Hindus and The Rest at Karachi, scoring 16.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mukherjee|first1=Abhishek|title=Naoomal Jaoomal: The man who opened batting in India's first ever Test|url=http://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/naoomal-jaoomal-the-man-who-opened-batting-in-indias-first-ever-test-126656|website=cricketcountry.com|publisher=India.com|accessdate=7 December 2016}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://content.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/31939.html Naoomal Jeoomal] at [[ESPNcricinfo]]
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/595/595.html Naoomal Jeoomal] at CricketArchive
* [[Indian Cricket (annual)|Indian Cricket 1980]] obituary
* Christopher Martin-Jenkins, ''The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers''
*[http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Records/Firstclass/Overall/Small_Totals_With_Double_Century.html Lowest innings totals to include a double century]

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