Baqa Jilani
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat (RHB) | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm medium pace | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 1 | 31 |
| Runs scored | 16 | 928 |
| Batting average | 8.00 | 18.56 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 1/5 |
| Top score | 12 | 113 |
| Balls bowled | 90 | 3,603 |
| Wickets | - | 83 |
| Bowling average | - | 19.93 |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | 3 |
| 10 wickets in match | - | 1 |
| Best bowling | - | 7/37 |
| Catches/stumpings | 0 | 12 |
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Test debut: 15 August 1936 |
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Mohammad Baqa Khan Jilani pronunciation (born on July 20, 1911, Jalandhar, Punjab - died on July 2, 1941, Jalandhar, Punjab) was a bowler who represented India in Test cricket.
Jilani came a family that also produced Majid Khan, Javed Burki and Imran Khan. He was a right arm medium paced bowler and a decent lower order batsman. He started off his career with twelve wickets on his first class debut. He is credited with taking the first hattrick in Ranji Trophy, for Northern India against Southern Punjab in the first tournament in 1934-35. Southern Punjab was dismissed for 22, still the lowest total in Ranji. [2]
Jilani played his only Test match in England in 1936. This tour was wrecked by infighting between two factions supportive to the captain Vizzy and the former captain C.K. Nayudu. Jilani belonged to the former group. On one occasion, Jilani publicly insulted Nayudu while coming down to breakfast. It has been alleged that Jilani owed his Test appearance to this incident.
Jilani was an Extra Assistant Commissioner in Jalandhar. He died a few days after his thirtieth birthday. He was the second Indian Test cricketer to die, after Amar Singh. For a time it was believed that he had committed suicide by hanging himself but this has subsequently been revised. David Frith writes :
Baqa Jilani, for instance, has long been regarded as a suicide, but the great Vijay Merchant told statistician Anandji Dossa, who told young writer Mudar Patherya, who told the author that Jilani had suffered an epileptic fit, lost his balance on the verandah of his house in Jullundur, and fallen to his death.
[edit] References
- David Frith, By his own hand
- Mihir Bose, A History of Indian Cricket
- Richard Cashman, Patrons, Players and the Crowd
- Cricinfo Profile
- Cricketarchive profile
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| NAME | Jilani, Mohammad Baqa Khan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baqa Jilani |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Cricketer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jalandhar, Punjab |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1941 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Jalandhar, Punjab |
