deliveries columns catches/stumpings year tenfor bowling country fivefor batting name lasttestyear column international testdebutdate source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
658 27533 2 - / - 91 / - 1946 - 3 right-arm off-break , leg-break indian - 26 right-hand bat chandu sarwate 1951 tests first-class true 20 july http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/33859.html 20 july 208 7430 1946 3 494 14 december - / - 14/38 9 171 chandu sarwate

chandu sarwate

chandrasekhar trimbak sarwate -lrb- known as chandu or chandra ; 22 july 1920 , sagor , madhya pradesh -- 23 december 2003 , indore -rrb- was an indian cricketer .
he was an all-rounder who played nine test matches for india between 1946 and 1951 without much success -- his test batting average was only 13.00 , and his test bowling average was 124.66 .
he bowled slow leg breaks .
however , in first-class cricket , he had a long career , spanning 32 years , during which he represented central provinces and berar , maharashtra , hindus , bombay , holkar , madhya pradesh and vidarbha .
his most famous innings was for the indians against surrey at the oval in 1946 , when he and shute banerjee put on 249 for the last wicket , more than the first nine wickets put together .
it is the only time in first-class cricket when the last two batsmen have both scored centuries .
it remains the highest partnership in first-class cricket between number ten and eleven batsmen .
his highest score was 246 for holkar against bengal in 1951 , and his best bowling in an innings was 9 for 61 for holkar against mysore in 1946 .
his overall batting average in first-class cricket was 32.73 , and his bowling average was 23.54 .
sarwate was a national selector for three years in the early 1980s , and was one of the selectors who picked the indian team that won the world cup in england in 1983 .
besides being the secretary of madhya pradesh cricket association , he was also the chairman of its selection committee on number of occasions .
sarwate held degrees in arts and law and was a fingerprint expert by profession .
