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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Indian cricketer}}<br />
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{{Use Indian English|date=July 2013}}<br />
{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Swaranjit Singh<br />
| image = <br />
| caption = <br />
| country = India<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1932|7|18|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Amritsar]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India|India]]<br />
| death_date = <br />
| death_place =<br />
| batting = Left-handed<br />
| bowling = Right-arm medium<br />
| club1 = [[Eastern Punjab cricket team|Eastern Punjab]]<br />
| year1 = 1950-51 to 1958-59<br />
| club2 = [[North Zone cricket team|North Zone]]<br />
| year2 = 1951-52 to 1958-59<br />
| club3 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]<br />
| year3 = 1954 to 1956<br />
| club4 = [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]]<br />
| year4 = 1956 to 1958<br />
| club5 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]<br />
| year5 = 1959-60 to 1961-62<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 88<br />
| runs1 = 3,709<br />
| bat avg1 = 27.07<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 4/19<br />
| top score1 = 145<br />
| deliveries1 = 13,525<br />
| wickets1 = 183<br />
| bowl avg1 = 29.89<br />
| fivefor1 = 7<br />
| tenfor1 = 1<br />
| best bowling1 = 6/20<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 33/0<br />
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/34/34200/34200.html CricketArchive<br />
}}<br />
'''Swaranjit Singh''' (born 18 July 1932) is a former Indian [[first-class cricket]]er. <br />
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Singh was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for [[Eastern Punjab cricket team|Eastern Punjab]] and [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]] in India as well as [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] and [[Warwickshire CCC|Warwickshire]] in England between 1950 and 1962.<ref>{{cite web |title=Swaranjit Singh |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/34/34200/34200.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=15 June 2019}}</ref><br />
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Swaranjit Singh was educated at [[Khalsa College, Amritsar]] and [[Panjab University|Punjab University]] before going to England to study at [[Christ's College, Cambridge]].<ref>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1957, p. 294.</ref> While he was a student at Christ's College in the 1950s, he married a fellow student from Germany. [[Manmohan Singh]], who later became Prime Minister of India, attended their wedding. Swaranjit and his wife Irmengard, who converted to [[Sikhism]], settled in [[Amritsar]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rataul |first1=Dharmendra |title=Women from West move heart and home to Holy City |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/women-from-west-move-heart-and-home-to-holy-city/ |website=Indian Express |accessdate=16 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Roy|first1=Amit|title=Cambridge sights on city|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/cambridge-sights-on-city-india-tops-vice-chancellor-visit-list-in-800th-year/cid/516611 |website=Telegraph India |accessdate=16 June 2019}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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[[Category:1932 births]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:Indian cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Warwickshire cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Gentlemen cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Eastern Punjab cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Cambridge University cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:North Zone cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Bengal cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Cricketers from Amritsar]]<br />
[[Category:Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge]]<br />
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