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{{Short description|Indian cricketer and maharaja}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = H.H. Jamsaheb Shatrusalyasinhji Digvijaysinhji Jadeja
| module =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|2|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Jamnagar]], [[Nawanagar State]], [[British India]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| family = [[Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji]] (father)
{{Infobox cricketer
| embed = yes
| image =
| caption =
| country = India
| fullname = H. H. Jam Saheb Shatrusalyasinhji
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm off-spin
| role =
| club1 = [[Saurashtra cricket team|Saurashtra]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1959–1967}}
| club2 = [[Indian Starlets]]
| year2 = 1966
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 29
| runs1 = 1,061
| bat avg1 = 22.57
| 100s/50s1 = 1/5
| top score1 = 164[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 2,674
| wickets1 = 36
| bowl avg1 = 40.05
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 4/104
| catches/stumpings1 = 15/–
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/35276.html ESPNcricinfo
| date = 27 March
| year = 2014
}}
}}
'''H.H. Jamsaheb Shatrusalyasinhji Jadeja''' (born 20 February 1939) is a former [[first-class cricket]]er and the last person to hold the title of [[Maharaja]] of [[Nawanagar State|Nawanagar]].

==Family and education==
His father, [[Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji|H H Jam Saheb Sri Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji]], played one first-class match, captaining [[Western India cricket team|Western India]] against [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] in 1933-34, just after succeeding [[Ranjitsinhji]] to the title of Maharaja of Nawanagar.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/14/14869.html Western India v MCC 1933-34]</ref> Shatrusalyasinhji is also the nephew of [[Duleepsinhji]].

Shatrusalyasinhji was educated at [[Malvern College]] in England, where he played for the First XI in 1957 and 1958. In 1957 he took 42 wickets at 15.11 and made 166 runs at 23.71, and in its schools report for the season ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' (referring to him as "M.K.S. Shatrushalyasinhji") noted his "ability to bowl off-breaks at an unusually speedy pace".<ref>''Wisden'' 1958, pp. 781-82.</ref> In 1958 he was "not as effective as in the previous year", taking 22 wickets at 18.22.<ref>''Wisden'' 1959, p. 751.</ref>

==Cricket career==
He made his first-class debut in the 1958–59 season, playing for [[Saurashtra cricket team|Saurashtra]] against [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]], scoring 15 not out and a [[Duck (cricket)|duck]] and taking the wicket of [[Arvind Apte]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23308.html Saurashtra v Bombay 1958-59]</ref> In 1959 he and his father visited England<ref>James Astill, ''The Great Tamasha'', Wisden Sports Writing, London, 2013, p. 31.</ref> and he played three matches for [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]] Second XI as an amateur, without much success.<ref>''Wisden'' 1960, p. 734.</ref>

He played three matches for Saurashtra in 1959–60, four in 1961–62, and four in 1962–63, with a highest score of 65,<ref name="archive bbs">[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/40/40837/f_Batting_by_Season.html Shatrusalyasinhji batting by season]</ref> the top score of the match, in a victory over [[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]] in 1961–62.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/25/25248.html Saurashtra v Baroda 1961-62]</ref> His highest career score came against [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]] in 1963–64, when batting at number three he scored 164 [[not out]] in seven and a half hours<ref>Astill, p. 31.</ref> out of a total of 382.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/26/26507.html Maharashtra v Saurashtra 1963-64]</ref>

In 1964, he brought his old Sussex teammates [[Les Lenham]] and [[Tony Buss]] to India; Lenham to coach him, Buss to bowl to him. Lenham said Shatrusalyasinhji "wanted to be a Ranji and a Duleep, all rolled into one, but he played too exotically".<ref>[[Stephen Chalke]], ''The Way It Was'', Fairfield, Bath, 2011, p. 217.</ref> His batting yielded only 113 runs in four matches in 1964–65,<ref name="archive bbs"/> but he did take his best bowling figures, 4 for 101 against Baroda, in a Saurashtra team that also included two other members of the Jamnagar royal family, [[Kumar Indrajitsinhji]] and [[Chatrapalsinhji]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/27/27134.html Baroda v Saurashtra 1964-65]</ref>

In 1966–67, Shatrusalyasinhji's final season of first-class cricket, he captained Saurashtra in the [[Ranji Trophy]], and [[Indian Starlets]] to the final of the [[Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament]],<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/28/28481.html Indian Starlets v State Bank of India 1966-67]</ref> and was also selected for [[West Zone cricket team|West Zone]] to play the touring [[West Indies cricket team|West Indians]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/28/28545.html West Zone v West Indians 1966-67]</ref>

==After cricket==
Shatrusalyasinhji was head of the [[Saurashtra Cricket Association]] for some years until he was replaced in 1972 by [[Niranjan Shah]], who has remained in charge since, and whose son [[Jaydev Shah]] has had a long career in the Saurashtra team.<ref>Astill, pp. 93-94.</ref>

At one stage he kept around 8000 pets in his palaces. He has a {{Convert | 45 | acre | adj = on}} walled wildlife reserve opposite his house in Jamnagar.<ref>Astill, p. 29.</ref>

==Personal life==
He married a member of the Nepalese royal family,<ref>[http://www.indianrajputs.com/view/nawanagar Nawanagar (princely state)] Retrieved 25 March 2014.</ref> and succeeded to the title of Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar in February 1966 on the death of his father. When the [[List of amendments of the Constitution of India|Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution of India]] was passed in 1971, abolishing princely privy purses and entitlements, he became H H Jam Saheb Sri Shatrusalyasinhji.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cricinfo|id=35276}}

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