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M. J. Gopalan

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523:. This yearly tournament continued with a few interruptions till Sri Lanka got Test status in the early 1980s. It was revived in 2000 as a match between Tamil Nadu and a Colombo District Cricket Association. This also lapsed after two years. He served as a national selector for a few years in the 1950s. 504:, he could hardly be faulted on this account. He was then about a No.10 batsman, but by steady application he showed what improvement a bowler who really tries can make in batting and later on played many fine innings". The most celebrated of these 'many fine innings' was a 64 against the 499:
Gopalan's batting improved with time. Johnstone wrote later that it featured a "stance at the wicket with his left toe cocked up in the air. Since it was the stance adopted by England's most famous cricketer,
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Gopalan was the oldest living Test cricketer at the time of his death. According to him, he was born in 1906 but the year of his birth was recorded wrongly in the school records.
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In 1952, a silver jubilee fund was started to celebrate Gopalan's 25 years in cricket and hockey. An annual cricket match was instituted between Madras and Ceylon (later
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with little difficulty. As it turned out, Gopalan did not play a Test in England. The tour was marred by internal politics and the team returned in disgrace.
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Gopalan's hockey career was helped by Robert Summerhayes who was to hockey in Madras what Johnstone was to cricket. In 1935, he toured
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He was a fast medium bowler who moved the ball both ways. When he was selected to make his first class debut in the
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but chose to skip the Olympic trials. This turned out to be a terrible decision. The hockey team captained by
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Another performance of some significance were the two matches in 1930 for Madras against the
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team which enjoyed enormous success. The next year he was selected for the
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district, some 50 kilometres from Chennai. His family moved to
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News report announcing the institution of Gopalan Trophy
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in Chennai when he was young. Gopalan was discovered by
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Index

M.J. Gopalan
Chennai
Madras Presidency
British India
Chennai
Tamil Nadu
India
18
England
Test
First-class
Batting average
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Balls
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
stumpings
ESPNcricinfo
pronunciation
cricket
hockey
Chingleput
Triplicane
C. P. Johnstone
Burmah Shell
Madras Presidency tournament
Arthur Gilligan
MCC

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