Aakash Chopra is a cricket commentator,YouTuber and former cricketer who played for the Indian cricket team from 2003 to late 2004.
Vijay Samuel Hazare was an Indian cricketer. He captained India in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953. In India's 25th Test match,nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status,he led India to its first Test cricket win in 1951–52 against England at Madras,winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that began on the day that King George VI died. He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996,the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player.
Colonel Hemchandra"Hemu" Ramachandra Adhikari was an Indian cricketer,representing his country both as a player and a coach in a career that spanned three decades. He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998,the highest honour bestowed by the BCCI on a former player.
Vijay Singh Madhavji Merchant,was an Indian cricketer. A right-hand batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler,Merchant played first-class cricket for Bombay cricket team as well as 10 Test matches for India between 1929 and 1951. Behind his limited Test appearances,he dominated Indian domestic cricket –his batting average of 71.64 is the second highest first-class average in history,behind only that of Don Bradman. He is regarded as the founder of the Bombay School of Batsmanship,that placed more importance on right technique,steely temperament,and conservative approach rather than free flow of the bat.
Amritsar Govindsingh Kripal Singh was an Indian Test cricketer.
Amritsar Govindsingh Milkha Singh was an Indian Test cricketer. Milkha Singh was a left-handed batsman and an occasional right arm medium pace bowler. He came from a famous cricketing family which also produced A. G. Ram Singh and his more successful brother A. G. Kripal Singh.
Motganhalli Laxminarsu Jaisimha was an Indian Test cricketer.
Lieutenant General Apoorva Kumar Sengupta was an Indian army officer and cricketer who played in one Test in 1959. According to Christopher Martin-Jenkins,he was a "very good allrounder,right hand opening batsman,leg-break and googly bowler and slip field".
Hanumant Singh ( )(29 March 1939 –29 November 2006) was an Indian cricketer. He played in 14 Test matches for the Indian cricket team from 1964 to 1969. He was later an International Cricket Council match referee in 9 Tests and 54 One Day Internationals from 1995 to 2002.
Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji Madhavsinhji was an Indian cricketer who played in four Test matches from 1964 to 1969 as a wicket-keeper-batsman.
Captain Mohan Singh Kohli,is an Indian Navy officer and mountaineer,who led the 1965 Indian Everest Expedition,which saw nine men reach the summit of Everest,a world record for 17 years.
Amarjit Kaypee is an Indian former cricketer. He was primarily a right-handed batsman,and he held the record for the most runs scored in the Ranji Trophy,India's premier domestic first-class cricket competition for a number of years before Amol Muzumdar took the record in 2009. However,despite his success,he was never selected for the Indian national team,an unfortunate feat he shares with the man who broke his record.
Amritsar Govindsingh Ram Singh was an Indian first-class cricketer. An allrounder,he bowled slow left-arm orthodox and was a left-handed middle order batsman. His sons A. G. Kripal Singh and A. G. Milkha Singh played Test cricket for India.
Pankaj Singh is an Indian former cricketer. In December 2018,he became the first seam bowler to take 400 wickets in the Ranji Trophy. He retired from all forms of cricket in July 2021.
Virinchirpuram Krishnamoorthi Ramaswamy is a former Indian Test cricket umpire.
Syed Mushtaq Ali was an Indian cricketer,a right-handed opening batsman who holds the distinction of scoring the first overseas Test century by an Indian player when he scored 112 against England at Old Trafford in 1936. He batted right-handed and bowled slow left-arm orthodox spin. He bowled frequently enough in domestic matches to be classified as an all-rounder but only occasionally in Test matches. Mushtaq Ali was noted for his graceful batting style and a flair which often cost him his wicket by being over-adventurous too soon in an innings. He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995,the highest honour bestowed by the BCCI on a former player.
Romilly Lisle Holdsworth,commonly known as R. L. Holdsworth,was an English scholar,academic,educationalist,cricketer and a distinguished Himalayan mountaineer. He was a member of the first expedition to Kamet in 1931,which included other stalwarts such as Eric Shipton and Frank Smythe. Holdsworth,along with Shipton and Smythe,are credited with the discovery of the Valley of Flowers,now a UNESCO World Heritage Site,during their return from Kamet.
The role of The Doon School in Indian mountaineering describes the formative links between The Doon School,an all-boys boarding school in Dehradun,India,and early,post-Independence Indian mountaineering. From the 1940s onwards,Doon's masters and students like A.E. Foot,R.L. Holdsworth,J.A.K. Martyn,Gurdial Singh,Jack Gibson,Aamir Ali,Hari Dang,Nandu Jayal,were among the first to go on major Himalayan expeditions in a newly independent nation. These early expeditions contributed towards laying the foundation of mountaineering in an independent India. Mountaineer and chronicler Harish Kapadia wrote in his book Across Peaks &Passes in Garhwal Himalaya:"To my mind,it was when Gurdial Singh [then a Doon School master] climbed Trisul in 1951 that was the beginning of the age of mountaineering for Indians."
Chandigarh cricket team represents the Union Territory of Chandigarh in Indian domestic cricket competitions. In August 2019,the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) named them as the last of ten expansion teams,the other nine having been introduced in 2018–19. Chandigarh made their senior debut in the 2019–20 season,playing in the Ranji Trophy,the Vijay Hazare Trophy,and the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Former Indian cricketer,V. R. V. Singh,was named as the first coach of the team.
