Chandrakant Patankar
Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar 
pronunciation (help·info) (born 24 November 1930) is a former Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1955.[1]
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| Full name | Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 November 1930 Pen, British India (now in Maharashtra, India) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test (cap 82) | 28 December 1955 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1949-50 to 1965-66 | Bombay | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1966-67 | Maharashtra | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 20 October 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Life and careerEdit
Born in Pen in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, Patankar attended Bombay University, gaining an MSc.[2] He played first-class cricket for Bombay from 1950 to 1966, then had a season for Maharashtra in 1966-67.[1]
A wicketkeeper and lower-order right-handed batsman, Patankar replaced his Bombay wicketkeeping colleague Naren Tamhane, who was injured, for the fourth game of the five-match Test series against New Zealand in 1955-56, but lost his place when Tamhane replaced him for the final game of the series.[2][3] He played in Bombay's Ranji Trophy-winning teams in 1960-61 and 1965-66, but never played an uninterrupted season, Tamhane being the senior Bombay wicket-keeper for most of that period.[4] In the Ranji Trophy semi-final against Madras in 1953-54 he made five stumpings in Bombay's 379-run victory, then lost his place to Tamhane for the final.[5] He usually batted in the tail without making many runs, but when he opened the batting for the Maharana of Mewar's XI against the Associated Cement Company in the 1964-65 Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament he not only scored his only first-class fifty but went on to score 100.[6]
Patankar worked for the Indian companies BEST, Killick Indus and Laxmi Vishnu.[2]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Chandrakant Patankar". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mukherjee, Abhishek. "Chandrakant 'Chandu' Patankar: A gloveman lost amidst Bombay stalwarts". Cricket Country. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
- ↑ "Scorecard: India v New Zealand". www.cricketarchive.com. 28 December 1955. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
- ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Naren Tamhane". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
- ↑ "Ranji Trophy 1953-54". Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
- ↑ "Associated Cement Company v Maharana of Mewar's XI 1964-65". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 November 2020.