C.K. Nayudu ( Cottari Kanakiya Nayudu), the first captain of the Indian Test Cricket team and also the first cricket player of India to be honoured with Padma Bhushan award.C.K. Nayudu was born on the 31st of October 1895 in Nagpur, Maharashtra. C.K. Nayudu started playing Cricket at an early age. He has captained the Cricket team of the Hislop Collegiate High School, Nagpur. C.K Nayudu was selected by the Modi Club, while he was studying in school and was selected as its captain.
First Class Cricket Career
C.K.Nayudu debuted the First Class Cricket in the year 1916 playing for Hindus against the Europeans. In that match, he came to bat at No. 9 when the score of his team 79 runs at a loss of 7 wickets. He had blocked the first 3 balls, and hit a 6 in the fourth one. C.K.Nayudu was invited by the ruler of Holkar to Indore in 1923 and was appointed as Captain of the ruler’s army.
International Test Cricket Career
C.K.Nayudu was the First Indian Cricket Test team captain which was played against England at Lord’s in the year 1932. In this first Indian cricket test match, C.K.Nayudu scored the highest score of 40 runs in the innings. Nayudu also played all the 26 First Class Cricket matches that were played in this tour, and scored 1,618 runs with a Batting Average of 40.45 runs. Overall, he scored 1,842 runs and grabbed 65 wickets during the whole tour. He played another six matches against England, three in the year 1933-34 and another three in the year 1936.
C.K.Nayudu’s Final First Class Cricket Match
C.K.Nayudu played his last Ranji Trophy Cricket match for Uttar Pradesh in the year 1956-57 at the age of 62, in which he scored 52 runs.
C.K.Nayudu’s final appearance was in a charity match in 1963-64, which he played for the Maharashtra Governor's XI against the Maharashtra Chief Minister's XI.
C.K.Nayudu died at the age of 72 on the 14th of November 1967 in Indore.
Batting and fielding averages
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | 6s | Ct | St |
Tests | 7 | 14 | 0 | 350 | 81 | 25.00 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
First-class | 207 | 344 | 15 | 11825 | 200 | 35.94 | 26 | 58 | - | 170 | 1 |
Bowling averages
| Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 |
Tests | 7 | 10 | 858 | 386 | 9 | 3/40 | 3/40 | 42.88 | 2.69 | 95.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First-class | 207 |
| 25,798 | 12,038 | 411 | 7/44 |
| 29.28 | 2.79 | 62.7 |
| 12 | 2 |
