Vijay Hazare

Vijay Hazare
Personal information
Full name Vijay Samuel Hazare
Born (1915-03-11)11 March 1915
Sangli, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died 18 December 2004(2004-12-18) (aged 89)
Baroda, Gujarat, India
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium pace
International information
National side
Test debut 22 June 1946 v England
Last Test 28 March 1953 v West Indies
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1934–1942 Maharashtra
1935–1939 Central India
1941–1961 Baroda
1957–1958 Holkar
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 30 238
Runs scored 2,192 18,740
Batting average 47.65 58.38
100s/50s 7/9 60/73
Top score 164* 316*
Balls bowled 2,840 38,447
Wickets 20 595
Bowling average 61.00 24.61
5 wickets in innings 0 27
10 wickets in match 0 3
Best bowling 4/29 8/90
Catches/stumpings 11/– 166/–
Source: Cricket Archive, 22 October 2010

Vijay Samuel Hazare  pronunciation  (11 March 1915 – 18 December 2004) was an Indian cricket player from the state of Maharashtra. He captained the Indian cricket team 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 ever Test cricket win (and the only victory under his captaincy) 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.

Early life

Hazare was born in Sangli, in the then Bombay Presidency of British India in 1915, one of eight children of a schoolteacher.

Primarily a right-hand batsman, Hazare was also a right-hand medium-pace bowler. A "shy, retiring" man (according to Wisden in 1952), it was widely thought that he was not a natural captain, and that his batting suffered as a result. His rival, Vijay Merchant said that the captaincy prevented Hazare from becoming India's finest batsman: "It was one of the tragedies of cricket."

Even so, Hazare's Test record is very respectable: he amassed 2,192 runs in 30 Test matches with a batting average of 47.65. His first-class record is even more impressive, with a batting average of 58.38 for his 18,740 runs (highest first-class aggregate for an Indian player after Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid). He scored 60 first-class centuries (including 7 in Tests), the fourth highest for an Indian player and 10 first-class double centuries (including six during World War II, when India was the only Test cricket-playing country to continue holding its domestic first-class cricket competition without interruption).

His bowling record was more modest, and he took 595 first-class wickets (including 20 in Tests, and Donald Bradman's wicket three times) at an bowling average of 24.61. On the Indian domestic circuit, Hazare played for the Maharashtra, Central India and Baroda teams.

Some of his notable achievements include:

Vijay Hazare's career performance graph.

In retirement, he was for a short while an Indian Test cricket selector. He has been honoured with a trophy in his name, the Vijay Hazare Trophy, a zonal-cricket tournament in India. He died in December 2004 following prolonged illness caused by intestinal cancer.

He and Jasu Patel were the first cricketers to be honoured with the Padma Shri.

References

Preceded by
Lala Amarnath
Indian National Test Cricket Captain
1951/2–1952
Succeeded by
Lala Amarnath
Preceded by
Lala Amarnath
Indian National Test Cricket Captain
1952/3
Succeeded by
Vinoo Mankad
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