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Today Famous Cricketers, Birthdays – INDIA

Sarita Dey
3 years ago

EKNATH SOLKAR –

Eknath Dhondu Solkar was born on 18 March 1948 in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra. he was an Indian all-round cricketer who played 27 Tests and seven One Day Internationals for his country and died of a heart attack in the same city. He was 57 survived by his wife, a son, and a daughter.

Solkar father was the head groundsman at Hindu Gymkhana, Mumbai. Anant solkar, Eknath’s younger brother, also played cricket at first class level, representing Maharashtra in Rangi trophy matches.

Left-handed Solkar, whose Test career stretched between 1969 and 1976-77, played in 27 Tests, amassing 1068 runs in 48 innings mostly by batting lower down the order, averaging 25.42 with one century, a courageous knock of 102 against Clive Lloyd’s touring West Indians at Mumbai’s Wankhede stadium in 1974-75, and six half-centuries. Solkar also bagged 18 wickets with his mixture of slow left-arm medium pace and spin, giving away 1070 runs at a costly 59.44 per wicket.

”I only watch the ball” Solkar

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RAVIKANT SINGH – Ravikant Singh was born on 18 March 1994 in Calcutta now Kolkata, Bengal. He is made his Twenty20 debut on 18 November 2019 for Bengal in the 2019-20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. His batting style is Right Hand Bat.

Ravikant Singh is not only a batsman but a good bowler too.  His bowling has a special trick to cut off the opponent team. Coming to his Bowling history, he has been part of many Test matches, ODI, T20I, and T20.

SNEHAL PRADHAN –

Snehal Nitin Pradhan was born on 18 March 1986 in Pune. She is a cricketer who played in six women’s One Day Internationals and four T20 Internationals for India. She is now working as a freelance sports journalist, broadcaster, and YouTuber.

Snehal has appeared on major TV and Radio channels as a live cricket commentator and studio analyst in multiple languages for platforms such as Star Sports, BBC Test Match Special, BCCI, etc.

She has written for publications like ESPNCricinfo, Economic Times, Firstpost, Scroll, etc, as well as been published in the Wisden Almanack. 1 lakh 70 thousand subscribers who follow, Snehal Hindi cricket tutorial videos.

Today many cricketer birthdays like- Vivek Jaisemha, Madhusudhan Rege, Somya Parke, Kedar Bhave, Bivhal Majumdar.

All the best wishes for your today and tomorrow…

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