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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Pandurang Salgaonkar
| country = India
| fullname = Pandurang Mahadev Salgaonkar
| nickname =
| international = true
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1949|10|15}}
| birth_place = [[Malvan]], [[Bombay State]], India
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| heightm =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm [[fast bowling|fast]]
| role = Bowler
| family =
| club1 = [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]
| year1 = 1972–1981
| clubnumber1 =
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 63
| runs1 = 1,039
| bat avg1 = 17.03
| 100s/50s1 = 1/1
| top score1 = 103
| deliveries1 = 10,242
| wickets1 = 214
| bowl avg1 = 26.70
| fivefor1 = 11
| tenfor1 = 1
| best bowling1 = 7/72
| catches/stumpings1 = 26/–
| column2 = [[List A cricket|List A]]
| matches2 = 6
| runs2 = 4
| bat avg2 = 2.00
| 100s/50s2 = –/–
| top score2 = 3
| deliveries2 = 321
| wickets2 = 6
| bowl avg2 = 33.66
| fivefor2 = –
| tenfor2 = –
| best bowling2 = 2/23
| catches/stumpings2 = 4/–
| date = 18 August
| year = 2013
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/40/40775/40775.html Cricket Archive
}}

'''Pandurang Mahadev Salgaonkar''' (sometimes spelled '''Salgaoncar''') (born 15 October 1949) is a former Indian [[cricket]]er who played as a fast bowler for [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]] from 1971–72 to 1981–82.

==Early career==
In 1971–72, his debut season, Salgaonkar took 15 wickets at 23.33 in four [[Ranji Trophy]] matches,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/40/40775/f_Bowling_by_Season.html Pandurang Salgaoncar bowling by season]</ref> immediately establishing a reputation as the fastest bowler in India.<ref>P.N. Sundaresan, "Cricket in India, 1971–72", ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1974, p. 946.</ref>

At the start of the 1972–73 season he played for Rest of India against [[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]] in the [[Irani Cup]], taking six wickets, including the Indian captain [[Ajit Wadekar]] twice.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/32/32917.html Rest of India v Bombay 1972–73]</ref> In his next match, playing in the Ranji Trophy for Maharashtra against Bombay, he dismissed [[Sunil Gavaskar]] twice. His next two matches were for [[West Zone cricket team|West Zone]] in the [[Duleep Trophy]]. He took his best first-class match figures of 10 for 111 (5 for 55 and 5 for 56) against [[South Zone cricket team|South Zone]] in the semi-final<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/32/32942.html South Zone v West Zone 1972–73]</ref> and a few days later took his best innings figures of 7 for 72 in the final against [[Central Zone cricket team|Central Zone]],<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/32/32951.html West Zone v Central Zone 1972–73]</ref> giving West Zone the trophy.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Krishna |first1=Samkaran |title=A fast bowler India might have had |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/sankaran-krishna-a-fast-bowler-india-might-have-had-930939 |website=Cricinfo |access-date=31 October 2021}}</ref>

He took only one wicket when West Zone played the touring [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] in [[Ahmedabad]] in a match dominated by batsmen and spin bowlers, and finished the 1972–73 season with seven wickets in a narrow loss to [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]] in the semi-final of the Ranji Trophy. He took 54 wickets at 19.44 in the season. ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' noted that "P.M. Salgoancar [''sic''] (Maharashtra), the country's new hope in medium-fast bowling, showed splendid improvement ..."<ref>P.N. Sundaresan, "Cricket in India, 1972–73", ''Wisden'' 1974, p. 1013.</ref>

==Playing for India==
Salgaonkar maintained good form in the early part of the 1973–74 season, and was selected to tour [[Sri Lanka]] with a strong Indian team in January and February 1974. Opening the bowling with [[Madan Lal]], he took 5 for 42 and 2 for 79 against [[Sri Lanka national cricket team|Sri Lanka]] in the second unofficial [[Test cricket|Test]] in [[Colombo]], which India won after the first of the two matches was drawn.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/33/33998.html Sri Lanka v India, Colombo 1973–74]</ref>

He was not included in the Indian team that toured England in the first half of the 1974 season. India lost all three Tests by large margins. Relying almost entirely on spin, the Indian attack was ineffective on pitches favouring pace and seam, and took only 24 English wickets. ''Wisden'' commented: "Probably the Indians would have benefited from including Salgoankar [''sic''], of Maharashtra, easily the quickest bowler in the country and who, as it happened, came to England later for coaching at [[Alf Gover|A.R. Gover's]] school."<ref>[[Dicky Rutnagur]], "India in England, 1974", ''Wisden'' 1975, p. 301.</ref> According to Vijay Lokapally, however, the coaching "tampered with his action and Salgaonkar could never do justice to his potential".<ref>[https://archive.today/20130818062256/http://hindu.com/2001/10/05/stories/07050288.htm V. Lokapally, "To change or not to change, that's the question facing Nehra"], ''[[The Hindu]]'', 5 October 2001. Retrieved 17 August 2013.</ref>

==Later career==
In a semi-final of the Duleep Trophy in 1974–75, after the first two days had been washed out, Salgaonkar destroyed the [[East Zone cricket team|East Zone]] batting, taking 6 for 39 and dismissing East Zone for 83. East Zone just managed to hold on for a draw.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/34/34718.html West Zone v East Zone 1974–75]</ref> He played without notable success for Rest of India against [[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]] in the Irani Cup, and then, in his last match for West Zone, he took three expensive wickets against the touring [[West Indies cricket team]], dismissing [[Alvin Kallicharran]] twice. In a Ranji Trophy match in 1974–75 at [[Nasik]] he bowled a ball that broke Sunil Gavaskar's finger.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/top-stars-likely-to-play-ranji-trophy-opening-match/article3889928.ece V. Lokapally, "Top stars likely to play Ranji Trophy opening match" ''The Hindu'', 13 September 2012]. Retrieved 17 August 2013.</ref>

After 1974–75 he played only for Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy, never quite regaining the venom of his earlier years. The highlight of his later career was his only century, 103 against [[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]] in 1980–81.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/40/40777.html Baroda v Maharashtra 1980–81]</ref>

The Indian cricket historian Sujit Mukherjee said Salgaonkar "gave promise of bowling at stroke-hastening pace and arming India with a weapon that had been wanting ever since [[Ramakant Desai|Desai's]] decline. Though wayward in direction, he had the stamina to bowl lengthy spells without slackening speed and the ability to obtain awkward bounce", but when he was not selected to tour England in 1974 he became "disheartened". "His career must have put off many strong young men from trying to bowl fast."<ref>Sujit Mukherjee, ''Playing for India'', Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1988, p. 77.</ref>

==After retirement==
Salgaonkar runs a cricket coaching academy in [[Pune]]<ref>[http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/INTERACTIVE/COACHING/ACADEMY/PUNE.html Coaching camps in Pune] Retrieved 18 August 2013.</ref> and is the chief pitch curator at the [[Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium]] in [[Pune]].<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/mithun-binny-and-khadiwale-hog-the-limelight/article4259771.ece "Mithun, Binny and Khadiwale hog the limelight"] Retrieved 18 August 2013.</ref> He has served as chief selector of the Maharashtra Ranji Trophy team. In 2009, 2010 and 2011 he refereed matches in the Maharashtra Premier League, a local [[Twenty20]] competition.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/40/40775/Referee_in_Miscellaneous_Matches.html Pandurang Salgaoncar as referee]</ref>

On 25 October 2017, he was sacked as chief pitch curator at Pune for allegedly allowing people to tamper with the pitch before a [[New Zealand cricket team in India in 2017–18#2nd ODI|major match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-vs-new-zealand-2017/who-is-pandurang-salgaonkar-pune-curator-suspended-for-alleged-pitch-fixing/story-i4HQ2SJvZbP3JAnQfLyqDI.html|title=Pandurang Salgaonkar, Pune curator suspended for alleged 'pitch-fixing' |publisher=Hindustan Times |access-date=26 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-vs-new-zealand-2017/pitch-gate-india-vs-new-zealand-2nd-odi-in-pune-hit-by-report-of-pitch-fixing/story-Ep5jvoIZcwkYCKeNPAQA9K.html |title=BCCI sacks ex-cricketer Pandurang Salgaonkar after Pune pitch-fixing 'exposed' |publisher=Hindustan Times |access-date=26 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-new-zealand-2017/content/story/1124590.html |title=Pune curator dismissed after pitch controversy |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=26 October 2017}}</ref> A couple of days later [[Maharashtra Cricket Association]] (MCA) said it had only suspended him as head groundsman of the Pune pitch.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/21168379/maharastra-say-pune-curator-suspended-not-dismissed|author=Nagraj Gollapudi |title=Maharastra say Pune curator suspended, not dismissed |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=28 October 2017}}</ref> He later resumed his duties there.<ref>{{cite news |title=Chance for curator Pandurang Salgaonkar to redeem himself |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/chance-for-curator-pandurang-salgaonkar-to-redeem-himself-6060624/ |access-date=9 August 2021 |work=The Indian Express |date=9 October 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cricinfo|id=34875}}
* {{cricketarchive|id=40775}}

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