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Can you beat for the cricket guru title?
- Thread starter Pratters
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- Ok Ok I'll pick one, ummm C.K. Nayudu?
biased indian
International Coach
if not him then pataudi 
Actually his answer was CK nayudu. So I am going to have to award it to you, Tapioca, since you gave it as the only answer.Tapioca said:
So its your turn to post next question.
Thanks for giving his full name. I only new his name as Vijaya Anand or Rajkumar of Vizianagaram or Vizzy or Maharajah of Vizianagram
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Here's the full cricinfo profile of this colourful character -
Better known as `Vizzy', the Maharajah of Vizianagram takes his place as one of the most colourful and controversial characters in the history of Indian cricket. A great patron of the game in the late twenties and thirties, `Vizzy" used his personal wealth to get legendary cricketers like Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe to play in India. His immense wealth and interest in the game saw him rise to be an influential figure in Indian cricket circles in the thirties. When he captained India on their disastrous 1936 tour of England, he was knighted, and so became Sir Gajapatairaj Vijaya Ananda, the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram. Vijaya means victory, Ananda happiness, but there was precious little of either on that trip, even though India sent one of their strongest teams. Things were not helped by the fact that Vizzy was a poor player - not even of first-class standard, let alone Test, where he repeatedly failed. The tour was one of the unhappiest by an Indian team anywhere, with the team badly divided. The lack of team spirit showed on the field and in events off it. Vizzy sent the great Lala Amarnath home, ended the Test careers of class acts like CK Nayudu and Wazir Ali, and ordered one of his openers to run the other out in a Test - He didn't, and they both scored hundreds in a big stand - but India lost the series easily. During the tour however he received his knighthood. A rather small, bespectacled and plumpish figure, Vizzy was the favourite of caricaturists.
Not unexpectedly, the enquiry instituted to go into the disastrous tour came down heavily on Vizzy and for a long time he maintained a low profile. In the fifties, however he was back on the scene as a politician, broadcaster, BCCI president and long time administrator of the game in Uttar Pradesh. It was largely because of his influence that Kanpur was made a Test centre.
Cricinfo staff
Better known as `Vizzy', the Maharajah of Vizianagram takes his place as one of the most colourful and controversial characters in the history of Indian cricket. A great patron of the game in the late twenties and thirties, `Vizzy" used his personal wealth to get legendary cricketers like Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe to play in India. His immense wealth and interest in the game saw him rise to be an influential figure in Indian cricket circles in the thirties. When he captained India on their disastrous 1936 tour of England, he was knighted, and so became Sir Gajapatairaj Vijaya Ananda, the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram. Vijaya means victory, Ananda happiness, but there was precious little of either on that trip, even though India sent one of their strongest teams. Things were not helped by the fact that Vizzy was a poor player - not even of first-class standard, let alone Test, where he repeatedly failed. The tour was one of the unhappiest by an Indian team anywhere, with the team badly divided. The lack of team spirit showed on the field and in events off it. Vizzy sent the great Lala Amarnath home, ended the Test careers of class acts like CK Nayudu and Wazir Ali, and ordered one of his openers to run the other out in a Test - He didn't, and they both scored hundreds in a big stand - but India lost the series easily. During the tour however he received his knighthood. A rather small, bespectacled and plumpish figure, Vizzy was the favourite of caricaturists.
Not unexpectedly, the enquiry instituted to go into the disastrous tour came down heavily on Vizzy and for a long time he maintained a low profile. In the fifties, however he was back on the scene as a politician, broadcaster, BCCI president and long time administrator of the game in Uttar Pradesh. It was largely because of his influence that Kanpur was made a Test centre.
Cricinfo staff
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