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| Full name | Napoleon Einstein | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 August 1989 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007,2014 | Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,4 April 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Napoleon Einstein (born 16 August 1989) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman. He played for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and was signed by Chennai Super Kings for the Indian Premier League. [1]
Einstein made his List A debut for Tamil Nadu against Kerala in a Ranji One-Day Trophy match at Secunderabad in February 2007. Opening the batting,he scored 92,putting on 203 for the first wicket with Murali Vijay to set up a 46-run win. [2] A month later,he played against Assam in the same competition but this time made only 1. [3]
He has been batting, [4] and bowling off spinners [5] in under-19 tournaments and has been selected for the Indian team for the under-19 World cup to be held in Malaysia in Feb 2008. [6] India went on to win the under-19 world cup.
Einstein's personal explanation of his name:"My grandfather was a scientist. He wrote a letter to Albert Einstein and even got a reply from him. I've got no idea [what the letter was about] even though I've read it. My mother was a physics graduate and she teaches Physics in a school. So I am Einstein. Napoleon is my father's name." [7] Einstein also said,"We don't believe in God. In our family,we're rationalists. Other people are named Krishna and Ram after Gods,so we were named Einstein and Napoleon after great people." [7]