Cricketers who were born in India and went on to play against India
Feb 23, 2019 at 2:10 PM
When India take on UAE in their Pool B encounter of the ICC World Cup 2015 in Perth, it will be an emotional clash for two cricketers, Krishna Karate and Swapnil Patil. Both were rejected by their respective state teams (Kerala and Mumbai) and were offered cotracts to play for UAE. Krishna was a Keralite, who did his schoolings with Robin Uthappa and college with Stuart Binny. On the other hand, Patil was a former teammate of Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane and Dhawal Kulkarni in the under 16, 17, 19 categories. It is going to be tough for them to play against their motherland. Here are some cricketers who were born in India and played against India representing a different country.
Hanif Mohammad:
Next on the list if former Pakistan batsman Hanif Mohammad, who has played 55 Test matches between 1952 and 1969 with a batting average of 43.98 with twelve hundreds out of which 15 Test matches against India in which he has scored 2 hundreds. He was born to a royal family in Junagadh state of British India (Modern day Saurashtra in Gujarat). He later moved to Pakistan during the partition after the Indian Independence from the British.
Colin Cowdrey:
Colin Cowdrey was born in his family estate at Ootacamund, Madras Presidency (Currently Ooty) in 1932, although his birthplace was usually misrecorded as Bangalore, 100 miles to the north. It was his father who made an application for Cowdrey to join the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) when Cowdrey was a just born baby. Cowdrey’s father and servants taught him cricket when he started to walk. When Cowdrey was five, he was taken to England to do his schoolings and later on went on to become a cricketer for England. He has played 114 Tests, making 7,624 runs at an average of 44.06 out of which he has faced India eight times.
Douglas Jardine:
Douglas Jardine was born in 1900 in Bombay, British India, to Scottish parents. When Jardine was nine, he was sent St. Andrews, Scotland to stay with his mother’s sister. There he lived in a large mansion where he spent most of his school holidays while going to Horris Hill School for which he started his career as an All-Rounder. He played for England in 22 Test matches between 1931 and 1934 out of which he played just seven matches against India. He was also the captain of the English teams for the 1932 Ashes, where he asked his bowlers to deploy the bodyline tactics.
Senior Pataudi:
Iftikhar Ali Khan was born at Pataudi House, Delhi in 1910 in the family of the Nawabs of Pataudi, a small non-salute princely state near Delhi (modern day Haryana). He was the eldest son of Nawab Muhammad Ibrahim Ali Khan of Pataudi and his wife Shahar Bano Begum. He became Nawab on his father’s death in 1917 and was formally installed as ruler in December 1931. He played six Tests in his career out of which, he played for two countries- India and England, the only cricketer to do so. When he was playing for England, he played against India in practice matches. His son Mansoor Ali Khan Patudi was a former captain f India.
Naseer Hussain:
The latest one in the list is former England Captain Naseer Hussian, who in 1968 was born in Chennai to a Indian father and an English mother. Later, on he represented England in 96 Tests and 88 ODIs. His father moved the family to England in 1975, where he chose cricket as his career and went on to represent his motherland. He has played several matches against India and has fond memories of playing against the Men in Blue.