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| Full name | Adiyeri Ponnambath Mambilly Gopalakrishnan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 January 1947 Tellicherry, Madras Presidency, British India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | P. M. Raghavan (father) P. M. Anandan (uncle) P. M. K. Mohandas (cousin) P. M. K. Raghunath (cousin) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1969–1972 | Kerala | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 21 July 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adiyeri Ponnambath Mambilly Gopalakrishnan (born 3 January 1947) is a former Indian cricketer who played at first-class level for Kerala from 1969 to 1972. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-spinner.
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Gopalakrishnan was born in Tellicherry (now Thalassery), in what was then part of the Madras Presidency but is now in Kerala State. [1] He made his Ranji Trophy debut for Kerala in August 1969, against Andhra, and went on to play three more matches during the 1969–70 season. [2] In the final two matches of his debut season, he recorded what were to be the two highest scores of his first-class career – 29 not out against Mysore, from ninth in the batting order, [3] and then 33 against Madras, after being promoted to sixth. [4] Gopalakrishnan had little batting success in the two other Ranji seasons he played for Kerala. During the 1970–71 season, he appeared in three matches, but recorded three ducks to finish with only two runs from five innings, at an average of 0.40. [5] Gopalakrishnan was not selected at all the following season, but returned for three matches during the 1972–73 season, where his three matches yielding 19 runs from five innings. [6]
Thalassery, formerly Tellicherry, is a commercial city on the Malabar Coast in Kannur district, in the state of Kerala, India, bordered by the districts of Mahé (Pondicherry), Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kasaragod and Kodagu (Karnataka). Thalassery municipality has a population just under 100,000. Thalassery has an area of 23.98 square kilometres (9.26 sq mi). It is 22 km south of the district headquarters in Kannur town. Thalassery is situated in an altitude ranging from 2.5m to 30m above mean sea-level.
The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, and also known as Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the whole of the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, and parts of Odisha, Kerala, Karnataka and the union territory of Lakshadweep. The city of Madras was the winter capital of the Presidency and Ootacamund or Ooty, the summer capital. The island of Ceylon was a part of Madras Presidency from 1793 to 1798 when it was created a Crown colony. Madras Presidency was neighboured by the Kingdom of Mysore on the northwest, Kingdom of Kochi on the southwest, and the Kingdom of Hyderabad on the north. Some parts of the presidency were also flanked by Bombay Presidency.
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Gopalakrishnan's father, P. M. Anandan, and uncle, P. M. Raghavan, both played at first-class level for Travancore-Cochin, Kerala's predecessor. Two of his cousins, brothers P. M. K. Raghunath and P. M. K. Mohandas, played for Kerala in the 1970s, with Mohandas and Gopalakrishnan playing several matches together. [1] Outside of playing cricket, the family have been prominent in the baking trade in Kerala. [7] [8] In 2013, Gopalakrishnan was one of sixteen ex-Ranji players who received a one-off endowment from the Kerala Cricket Association in recognition of their service during the sport's amateur period. [9] After retiring from playing, he had been the match referee for a Ranji game between Mumbai and Orissa during the 1997–98 season, in what was his only recorded appearance as a match official in a high-level game. [10]
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