Talk:Chandu Sarwate

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This is a horrible article and I need help editing it... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jbassett (talk • contribs) .

I'm afraid I removed much of the material, because it was copyright from Cricinfo. Sorry to have to do that, but you can't just copy material you've taken from other sources — you should read information from reputable sources, but you have to rewrite it in your own words.

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Stephen Turner (Talk) 18:50, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

OK, I've done some rewriting. How's that? Stephen Turner (Talk) 19:18, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Teams

In its statistics sections, Indian Cricket (annual) puts the stats for Holkar and Madhya Bharat together but Madhya Pradesh seperately (I am writing this from memory, so someone may cross-check). But CMJ's Who's who of Test cricketers (which I have a scanned copy of) provides only Central Provinces and Berar, Maharashtra, Bombay and Holkar as his main teams and writes later that Making his debut in the Ranji Trophy competition at sixteen, he took 5 for 33 for Central Province and Berar against Hyderabad, and subsequently became a prolific rungetter and wicket-taker, captaining Holkar (Madhya Pradesh) in due course. MP replaced MB/Holkar as a Ranji team, but I don't know whether the Ranji teams represented identical territories. I guess (hope!) having both Holkar and MP is okay. Tintin 21:44, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Trivia

This may not be worth including since the article is brief - Against Glamoran in 1946 Sarwate took one of the strangest hattricks. He dismissed Haydn Davies and Peter Judge with the last two balls of the first innings. Since Glamorgan had to follow on, to save time, the teams did not leave the field and Judge again took strike. Sarwate opened the bowling and again clean bowled Judge the first ball. Tintin 22:02, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

(Note : That he took a hat-trick has been proved wrong, the official explanation being that the scorebook is in a terrible condition and was read incorrectly. As per the new version Judge was dismissed second ball in his first innings)

That's a good one. I removed the following anecdote from the article too, because I didn't think it really belonged either, but it's worth recording here:

He had a good sense of humour, too. The story goes that Sarwate and Mushtaq Ali had hatched a plot to tease Gul Mahomed after he bragged about a romantic attention bestowed upon him on the 1946 tour of England. Sarwate, a professional handwriting and finger print expert, penned an anonymous love letter to Gul. It contained an imaginary message from a lady who had a crush on him, asking him to meet her at the Waterloo station, miles away from London.

Irrespective of severe cold and rain, the excited Gul did indeed reach the Waterloo! Next day, when Sarwate and Mushtaq Ali asked him how he found his lady admirer, Gulu brushed them aside and said that somehow he could not meet her! Interestingly, even when the two told him that the message was actually composed by them, he was not prepared to believe a word they said. And for a very long time Gul was under the impression that a damsel had indeed written him a letter!

Stephen Turner (Talk) 12:24, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

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