Maharajah of Porbandar
Protocol demanded that the captain on India’s first Test tour of England should be a prince and after much behind the scenes politicking, the job went to the Maharajah of Porbandar. The only trouble was that he wasn’t much of a cricketer. luckily he himself was aware of this and turned out in only four of the tourists’ 30 odd first-class matches in England, even standing down from the solitary Test, India’s first (when CK Nayudu captained). Famously, during the tour the Maharajah acquired more Rolls Royces than runs (two).