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About Sadashiv Shinde
- Sadashiv Ganpatrao "Sadu" Shinde pronunciation (18 August 1923, Bombay – 22 June 1955, Bombay) was an Indian cricketer who played in seven Tests from 1946 to 1952.
- His daughter, Pratibha Pawar, is the wife of politician Sharad Pawar. A leg-spinner, Shinde was described as "frail and willowy".
- Apart from the leg break and the conventional googly, Shinde could also bowl a different googly.
- According to Sujit Mukherjee, "coming after the orthodox wrist-crooked wrong-'un, this delivery invariably sprang a nasty surprise.
- Ripped off the top of the third finger, it hastened unexpectedly off the pitch.
- Its tendency to pitch short nullified its efficacy as secret weapon but was practically unplayable when properly pitched." Shinde's first performance of note in first class cricket was a 5 for 186 that took in 75.5 overs for Maharashtra against Bombay in 1943-44 as Vijay Merchant made 359* for Bombay.
- He toured England with the Indian team in 1946 and took 39 wickets in tour matches.
- In his only appearance in a Test match, at Lord's, he was involved in a stand of 43 for the last wicket with Rusi Modi, but did little with the ball.
- In the next five years, he played in only one more Test. His one major success in Tests came against England at Delhi in 1951-52.
- He was brought on to bowl as the third change just before lunch on the first day of the series.
- Immediately after lunch he bowled Don Kenyon middle stump with a googly, and followed with Jack Robertson lbw and Donald Carr caught by wicket-keeper Nana Joshi off a leg-break.
- He was 8-2-16-3 at this point.
- He took three more wickets after tea as England were bowled out for 203 five minutes before close.
- Shinde's figures were 6/91.
- India took a handsome first innings lead and had two days to bowl England out in the second innings.
- But Shinde had seven chances missed off his bowling, most crucially by Joshi and the substitute Dattajirao Gaekwad, and England managed to save the match.
- Shinde himself missed a run out. Shinde found a place in the team to England in 1952 (possibly at the expense of Subhash Gupte).
- He took 39 more wickets in tour matches but the wicket of Peter May in Leeds was to be his last in Tests. Given a minimum of ten innings, Shinde is one of only two Test cricketers whose batting averages exceeded their highest score.
- The other was the Pakistani cricketer, Antao D'Souza.Shinde represented Maharashtra, Bombay and Baroda in Ranji Trophy and took 230 wickets in first class matches.
- He died of typhoid at the age of 32.
- Shinde is the father-in-law of Sharad Pawar, the former President of BCCI.
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