Popular hero (to English sport fans) of the Indian Round Table Conference last week (see p. 20) was popeyed, genial "Ranji" -thus nicknamed because his proper style is Lieut. Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jamsaheb of Navanagar (see map p. 21 ).
In 1896 and 1900 "Ranji" was champion cricket batsman for All England, scoring 2,780 runs with an average of 59.91 -figures which Englishmen still ad mire. Today the "Ranji" cricket tradition is carried on by his nephew Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji who, as the Cricketers' Almanac for 1930 observes,...
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