Chandrakant Patankar

Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar pronunciation^ⓘ (born 24 November 1930) is an Indian former cricketer who played in one Test in 1955.^[1]

Chandrakant Patankar

Personal information
Full name	Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar
Born	(1930-11-24) 24 November 1930 (age 94) Pen, British India (now in Maharashtra, India)
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Batting	Right-handed
Role	Wicket-keeper
International information
National side	India
Only Test (cap 82)	28 December 1955 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1949–50 to 1965–66	Bombay
1966–67	Maharashtra
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class Matches 1 26 Runs scored 14 503 Batting average 14.00 15.71 100s/50s 0/0 1/0 Top score 13 100 Catches/stumpings 3/1 38/20
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 20 October 2021

Life and career

Born in Pen in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, Patankar attended Bombay University, gaining an MSc.^[2] He played first-class cricket for Bombay from 1950 to 1966, then had a season for Maharashtra in 1966–67.^[1]

A wicket-keeper and lower-order right-handed batsman, Patankar replaced his Bombay wicketkeeping colleague Naren Tamhane, who was injured, for the fourth game of the five-match Test series against New Zealand in 1955–56, but lost his place when Tamhane replaced him for the final game of the series.^[2][3] He played in Bombay's Ranji Trophy-winning teams in 1960–61 and 1965–66, but never played an uninterrupted season, Tamhane being the senior Bombay wicket-keeper for most of that period.^[4] In the Ranji Trophy semi-final against Madras in 1953–54 he made five stumpings in Bombay's 379-run victory, then lost his place to Tamhane for the final.^[5] He usually batted in the tail without making many runs, but when he opened the batting for the Maharana of Mewar's XI against the Associated Cement Company in the 1964–65 Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament he not only scored his only first-class fifty but went on to score 100.^[6]

Patankar worked for the Indian companies BEST, Killick Indus and Laxmi Vishnu.^[2]