TWO WORLD RECORD HOLDERS

By Brian Sanderson,

Recently I purchase a scorecard of C.S.Nayudu X1 against Catterick Sevices dated 18th July 1955.One of the reason I purchased the scorecard was that myself and Ron Deaton visited  the Catterick ground in November last year and did a blog on the  visit on13 November last year.The match was a testimonial match for Nayudu while he was playing for South Shields and was a evening match which started at 5.45 P.M..

Cottari Subbanna Nayudu was the brother of the captain of the first Test Match (at Lords in 1932 ) for India-he captained India in all four Test in all.Cottari holds two world records for bowling.In a match in India he bowled 917 balls in a match with figures of 6-153 and 5-275.This also is a record of the most runs in a spell in first class cricket.

Another player in his team was Vijay Samuel Hazare who was in partnership of 577 with Gul Mahomed for the 4th wicket in a match Baroda v Holkar in 1946/7 created a new world first -class record.At this time of the match he was playing in the Lancashire League for Rawtenstall .

The third player on the scorecard was Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde who was 20 years old at this time.He was a right hand bat who bowled leg-breaks. He was a the great sucess of the 1959 Indian tour to England ,hitting 1060 runs and taking 72 wickets.In the 1950,s I used to play Howzat cricket game and the above two players were in my Indian side.

The Catterick side who won the match included Peter Marner and also playing for Lancashire scoring over 17,000 first class runs.The top  scorer for Catterick was Captain J.D.K.Barnes with 50 not out.It states on the scorecard he played for Free Forester club but I can not find on the internet. He did played for Devon youth team so Cricket Archive states.

I also purchased at the same time another  scorecard of a Nayudu,s match at York on 11 th July 1956 and the above three players played.However there was no scores on the scorcard.

I wonder who owned the scorcards and must have been at both matches ?Another piece  interesting cricket memorabilia.