Pankaj Roy
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| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 54) | 2 November 1951 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 2 December 1960 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pankaj Roy (<phonos file="Pankaj_Roy.ogg">pronunciation</phonos>; 31 May 1928 – 4 February 2001) was an Indian cricketer who played in 43 Test matches, including once as captain.[1][2][3] He was a right-handed opening batsman, perhaps best known for establishing the world record opening partnership in Test cricket of 413 runs, together with Vinoo Mankad, against New Zealand at Chennai. The record stood for 52 years until 2008. Roy played for Bengal in domestic matches. In 2000, he was appointed as the Sheriff of Kolkata. He has been honoured with the Padma Shri.[4][5] His nephew Ambar Roy and son Pranab Roy also played Test cricket for India. He was a student of Vidyasagar College.[6] In 2016, he was posthumously awarded the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour conferred by BCCI on a former player.[7]
First-class career
Roy played domestic cricket in India for the Bengal cricket team. He scored a century on his first-class debut in 1946–47 and went on to score 33 hundreds, scoring a total of 11868 first class runs at 42.38.
Test career
When England toured India in 1951, Roy was selected for the Indian squad and made his Test debut at Delhi. Despite making just 12 in his debut innings he scored 2 centuries in the series. The following summer he toured England and had a contrasting series, making 5 ducks in his 7 innings, including Frank Tyson's debut first class wicket. This tally included a pair at Old Trafford. He was among the four victims (others being Datta Gaekwad, Vijay Manjrekar and Madhav Mantri) in India's miserable 0–4 start in the second innings of the Headingley Test of 1952 with Fred Trueman playing havoc. He would hit five Test centuries for India, with a top score of 173.
He captained India in a Test match in England in 1959, which India lost.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BCCI honours Indian legends Anshuman Gaekwad and Pankaj Roy". International Cricket Council. 29 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mukhopadhyay, Atreyo (4 May 2019). "When Swami Vivekananda claimed seven wickets and other Eden Gardens tales". newindianexpress.com. Kolkata: The New Indian Express. Express News Service. Archived from the original on 16 April 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
External links
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