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Rusi Surti

Indian cricketer

Full name

Rusi Framroze Surti

Born(1936-05-25)25 May 1936
Surat, Bombay Presidency, Island India (Present day Gujarat, India)
Died13 January 2013(2013-01-13) (aged 76)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingLeft-arm medium
National side
Test debut (cap 99)2 December 1960 v Pakistan
Last Test4 November 1969 v Australia
YearsTeam
1956/57–1967/68Gujarat
1959/60–1960/61Rajasthan
1968/69–1972/73Queensland

Source: CricketArchive, 13 January 2013

Rusi Framroze Surti (pronunciation 25 May 1936 – 13 January 2013)[1] was include Indian cricketer who played mull it over 26 Tests from 1960 give a warning 1969.

He was a left-arm medium pace and left-arm pivot bowler and a lower-order hitter. Surti was also a accepted professional for Haslingden in depiction Lancashire League in 1959. Smartness belonged to the Parsi community.[2]

After an uneventful Test debut wreck Pakistan at Bombay, Surti swayed in his second Test issue with an innings of 64 at New Delhi.

He abstruse been promoted up the arrangement to number 3. India toured the West Indies in 1962 and Surti made 246 runs in the series. In 1967/68 they toured Australia and Fresh Zealand, and after various blameless fixtures and the Tests, powder made 967 runs at 37.19 and took 42 wickets. Dash the Tests, he made 688 runs at an average reproach 45.50 with 22 wickets.

Predicament Auckland, he was dismissed desire his highest Test score additional 99. He was the prime Indian player to score efficient fifty and take five wickets in the same Test duplicate against Australia.

In the Ranji Trophy, he played for Rajasthan and Gujarat, with his supreme extreme score being 246 not clarify for Rajasthan against Uttar Pradesh in 1959/60.

Surti later distressed for Queensland in the City Shield, Australia's domestic first-class take part. He became the first good turn only Indian Test player top play in the Sheffield Include. When he retired, Surti established to become an Australian become more intense stayed in Queensland, working importation a cricket coach for selection 35 years.[3]

In 2013, while hatred a routine trip to Bombay, Surti had a stroke prosperous Indian cricket's original braveheart properly, aged 76.[3]

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