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"Cricket with Vijay Merchant" was a radio programme hosted by Merchant. It was broadcast on Sunday afternoons[ year needed ], [15] on Vividh Bharati, Anu D. Aggarwal quotes a survey, which revealed that it was one of the most listened to sponsored programmes. [16]

Legacy

Although Merchant played only ten Test matches, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest batmen of his era. [3] He was an attractive stroke maker, who "developed fine footwork, and built a stroke repertoire featuring a lovely cut, grasscutting drives, a delicate glance and late-cut, and, until later in his career, a brilliant hook stroke." [3] His batting average in first-class cricket was 71.64, putting him second only to Don Bradman of Australia. In India's domestic Ranji Trophy matches, Merchant fared even better, averaging 98.75 in 47 innings. His record is especially impressive as his runs came at a time of uncovered wickets. He was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1937. Merchant is also the oldest Indian player to score a Test century. He scored 154 when he was 40 years 21 days during England's 1951–52 tour of India. [3]

During his career, Merchant scored eleven double-centuries in first-class cricket, the most by an Indian batsman. The record stood until November 2017, when Cheteshwar Pujara scored his twelfth double-century batting for Saurashtra against Jharkhand in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy. [17] [18]

The Board of Control for Cricket in India named its under-16 domestic cricket tournament Vijay Merchant Trophy in his honour. [19]

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References

  1. ↑ Chaturvedi, Ravi (1 January 2009). Legendary Indian Cricketers. Prabhat Prakashan. p. 51. ISBN   978-81-8430-075-8.
  2. 1 2 Bose, Mihir (18 April 2006). The Magic of Indian Cricket: Cricket and Society in India. Routledge. p. 116. ISBN   978-1-134-24924-4. Perhaps the most emphatic illustration of the old-money attitude to Indian cricket is provided by Vijay Merchant and his family firm of Thackersey of Mumbai. This is one of the old established mill-owning families of Bombay, part of the Gujarati textile owners who shaped the city. Merchant's name should have been Vijay Thackersey. But when he was trying to explain his name to his English principal, he took so long and got so involved in the intricacies of the Gujarati family, that the principal decided that, since Vijay clearly belonged to the merchant class, he would have the surname Merchant.
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  5. ↑ Szymanski, Stefan; Wigmore, Tim (26 May 2022). Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket: Shortlisted for The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2023. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 31. ISBN   978-1-4729-9277-2. Great names of this era include Vijay Merchant, from a family of wealthy Gujarati industrialists.
  6. ↑ Lokapally, Vijay; Ezekiel, Gulu (20 November 2020). Speed Merchants: The Story of Indian Pace Bowling 1886 to 2019. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-93-88271-36-3. Though they came from vastly different social strata, Amar and Vijay Merchant became great friends—their common mother tongue of Gujarati perhaps being one reason. Outside royalty Merchant was one of the wealthiest Indian cricketers of his time.
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Vijay Merchant
Vijay Merchant 1936.jpg
Vijay Merchant in 1936
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Full name
Vijay Singh Madhavji Merchant
Born(1911-10-12)12 October 1911
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died27 October 1987(1987-10-27) (aged 76)
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
Role Batsman
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National side
Test debut(cap  15)15 December 1933 v  England
Last Test2 November 1951 v  England
Domestic team information
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International
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