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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Surjuram Girdhari
| image =
| caption =
| country = India
| fullname = Surjuram Kahojia Girdhari
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|4|14|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Karachi]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2006|4|15|1920|4|14}}
| death_place = [[Kendal]], [[Cumbria]], [[England]]
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm off-spin
| family =
| club1 = [[Sindh cricket team|Sind]]
| year1 = 1940-41 to 1943-44
| club2 = [[Western India cricket team|Western India]]
| year2 = 1944-45 to 1945-46
| club3 = [[Saurashtra cricket team|Kathiawar]]
| year3 = 1946-47 to 1947-48
| club4 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| year4 = 1948-49 to 1952-53, 1959-60
| club5 = [[East Zone cricket team|East Zone]]
| year5 = 1948-49 to 1958-59
| club6 = [[Assam cricket team|Assam]]
| year6 = 1954-55 to 1957-58
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 48
| runs1 = 2436
| bat avg1 = 36.90
| 100s/50s1 = 4/9
| top score1 = 229 not out
| deliveries1 = 9239
| wickets1 = 196
| bowl avg1 = 20.39
| fivefor1 = 14
| tenfor1 = 2
| best bowling1 = 8/55
| catches/stumpings1= 41/–
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/38/38976/38976.html Cricket Archive
| date = 12 January
| year = 2015
}}
'''Surjuram Kahojia Girdhari''' (14 April 1920 – 15 April 2006) played [[first-class cricket]] in India from 1940 to 1960, and then played club cricket in England.

==Career in western India==
S.K. Girdhari made his first-class debut in 1940-41 for [[Sindh cricket team|Sind]], playing principally as an off-spinner. In his second match, in 1941-42, batting at number 10, he made 93; thereafter he usually batted higher up the order. In 1944-45 for [[Western India cricket team|Western India]] against [[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]] he scored 44 and 149 and took 1 for 19 and 5 for 23.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17447.html| title = Gujarat v Western India 1944-45| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 20 January 2015}}</ref> A few weeks later, in a 12-a-side first-class match, he took 8 for 60.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17458.html| title = Bengal Governor's XI v Major-General Stewart's XII 1944-45| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 20 January 2015}}</ref> He played for a Rest of India team against the India to England Touring Team in 1946-47.

After [[Partition of India|Partition]] he played a season for [[Saurashtra cricket team|Kathiawar]] in 1947-48. He took 3 for 29 and 8 for 55 and made 40 not out and 14 not out in a low-scoring victory over Gujarat.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18321.html| title = Gujarat v Kathiawar 1947-48| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 20 January 2015}}</ref> In his next match he took 2 for 63 and 6 for 63 in a two-wicket victory over [[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18356.html| title = Kathiawar v Baroda 1947-48| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 20 January 2015}}</ref>

==Career in eastern India==
The next season, he moved across the country to [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]. In 1948-49 he took 5 for 31 and 1 for 42 when [[East Zone cricket team|East Zone]] inflicted the only defeat on the [[West Indian cricket team in India, Pakistan and Ceylon in 1948–49|touring West Indians]].<ref>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1950, pp. 814-15.</ref> In the [[Ranji Trophy]] final in 1952-53 he made 45 and 58 not out, and took 2 for 102 and, in the second innings, as Bengal vainly strove to dismiss [[Holkar cricket team|Holkar]] to win the match, and Holkar held on for a draw and the trophy, he had figures of 36–27–17–3.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/20/20552.html| title = Bengal v Holkar 1952-53| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 20 January 2015}}</ref>

In 1954-55 he moved even further east to play for [[Assam cricket team|Assam]]. Against [[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]] in his first match, when 40 wickets fell for 330 runs on a "treacherous pitch"<ref>[[Sujit Mukherjee]], ''Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer'', Ravi Dayal, Delhi, 1996, p. 93.</ref> at [[National Sports Council of Assam Ground|Jorhat]], he top-scored in each innings with 14 and 46, and took 6 for 20 and 6 for 46, but Bihar still won by 46 runs.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/21/21370.html| title = Assam v Bihar 1954-55| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 20 January 2015}}</ref> In an innings defeat to Bengal in 1956-57 he took 7 for 157 and again top-scored in each innings with 14 and 100.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22337.html| title = Assam v Bengal 1956-57| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 20 January 2015}}</ref> Against [[Orissa cricket team|Orissa]] in 1957-58 he scored a career-best 229 not out, which remained the individual record score for Assam until 1991-92.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/India/Firstclass/Assam/Batting_Records/Highest_Innings_For.html| title = Most runs in an innings for Assam| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 20 January 2015}}</ref>

He returned to Bengal for a final season in 1959-60, scoring 129 not out and taking 6 for 37 and 1 for 24 in an innings victory over Orissa.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23859.html| title = Orissa v Bengal 1959-60| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 20 January 2015}}</ref>

==Career in England==
He played a season as a professional with [[Accrington Cricket Club|Accrington]] in the [[Lancashire League (cricket)|Lancashire League]] in 1958, scoring 314 runs at 22.42 and taking 38 wickets at 14.76.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://lancashireleague.com/Seasons/1958.html| title = Lancashire League cricket in 1958| publisher = lancashireleague.com| accessdate = 20 January 2015}}</ref> Girdhari is "best remembered as an immaculately dressed and polite presence at [[Netherfield Cricket Club|Netherfield]], where he played when they joined the [[Northern Premier Cricket League|Northern League]] in 1959".<ref>''Wisden'' 2007, p. 1550.</ref> His all-round performance of 112 not out and 9 for 51 for Netherfield against Kendal in 1961 remains a club record.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/29138.html| title = SK Girdhari| publisher = Cricinfo| accessdate = 20 January 2015}}</ref> He settled in England permanently.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/38/38976/38976.html S.K. Girdhari at CricketArchive]
* {{Cricinfo|id=29138}}

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