P. M. Anandan

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Ponnabeth Mambally Anandan (born 1 December 1924) is an Indian former cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1951 to 1957.

P. M. Anandan

Personal information
Full name	Ponnabeth Mambally Anandan
Born	(1924-12-01)1 December 1924 Tellicherry, Kerala, India
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium-pace
Relations	P. M. Raghavan (brother)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1951–52 to 1956–57	Travancore-Cochin
1957–58	Kerala
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 9 Runs scored 158 Batting average 9.87 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 39 Balls bowled 1703 Wickets 30 Bowling average 23.20 5 wickets in innings 3 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 6/100 Catches/stumpings 5/–
Source: CricketArchive, 30 October 2016

Anandan was an opening bowler who made his first-class debut in 1951–52 in what was also Travancore-Cochin's first first-class match. He took five or more wickets in an innings in each of his first three matches: 6 for 100 against Mysore in 1951–52,^[1] 5 for 65 against Mysore in 1952–53,^[2] and 5 for 38 against Hyderabad in 1953–54.^[3]

His older brother P. M. Raghavan also played first-class cricket for Travancore-Cochin.