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
516 8,993 2 0 / - 22 / - 1949 - 2 right arm off-break , right-arm medium pace indian - 10 right-hand bat nirode chowdhury 1951 tests first-class true 27 january http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/0/848/848.html cricketarchive 27 january 3 419 1949 1 200 2 november 0/0 0 / 2 58 nirode chowdhury

nirode chowdhury

nirode ranjan `` putu '' chowdhury -lrb- 23 may 1923 , jamshedpur , india - 14 december 1979 , durgapur , india -rrb- was an indian cricketer .
a medium pace bowler , putu chowdhury had an outstanding start to his career when he took 11 , 9 and 10 wickets in his first three matches .
in 1944-45 , he took a hat-trick against bengal governor 's xi in eden gardens which included the wickets of vinoo mankad , mushtaq ali and lala amarnath .
he started his career with bihar , moved to bengal where he played most of his cricket and returned to bihar towards the end of his career .
he made his test debut against the west indies at madras in 1948/49 .
he took only one wicket but brilliantly ran out everton weekes who had scored hundreds in his five previous innings , and had reached 90 here -lsb- http://cricketarchive.com/archive/scorecards/f/17/f17967.html] .
weekes cut vinoo mankad to gully , started to run and was sent back .
chowdhury sent the throw to wicket keeper probir sen who ran weekes out .
in 1951 , he spent some time in alf gover 's cricket school in england .
he subsequently played a test against england at home without success and toured england in 1952 without playing in a test .
he was allotted a benefit match which could not be played .
he was a coach in the durgapur steel plant in the later years .
his bowling average of 205.00 is the second worst for india , after sunil gavaskar 's 206.00 .
