Subhash Gupte

Subhash Gupte
Personal information
Full name
Subhashchandra Pandharinath Gupte
Born(1929-12-11)11 December 1929
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died31 May 2002(2002-05-31) (aged 72)
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLegbreak googly
RelationsBaloo Gupte (brother)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 58)30 December 1951 v England
Last Test13 December 1961 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1948/49–1958/59Bombay
1953/54–1957/58Bengal
1954–1957Rishton
1958Heywood
1960–1961Lancaster
1960/61–1962/63Rajasthan
1963/64Trinidad
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class
Matches 36 115
Runs scored 183 761
Batting average 6.31 8.18
100s/50s 0/0 0/0
Top score 21 47
Balls bowled 11,284 29,632
Wickets 149 530
Bowling average 29.55 23.71
5 wickets in innings 12 36
10 wickets in match 1 11
Best bowling 9/102 10/78
Catches/stumpings 14/– 52/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 16 March 2017

Subhashchandra Pandharinath "Fergie" Gupte (Marathi: सुभाष गुप्ते) (pronunciation; 11 December 1929 – 31 May 2002) was one of Test cricket's finest spin bowlers. Sir Garry Sobers, EAS Prasanna and Jim Laker pronounced him the best leg spinner they had seen.[1][2]

Gupte flighted and spun the ball sharply, and possessed two different googlies. The West Indians who toured India in 1958/9 reckoned that Gupte could turn the ball on glass. His only drawback perhaps was that he tended to lose confidence when the batsmen attacked his bowling. In the domestic arena, Gupte played for Bengal, Bombay and Rajasthan in India and for Rishton, Heywood and Lancaster in the UK.[3] He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player.[4]

  1. ^ "Sobers says recent Australian teams aren't the best". ESPNcricinfo. 27 February 2006. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  2. ^ Chughtai, Arshad. "Sobers prefers Gupte over Warne". Archived from the original on 1 August 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Obituary: Subhash Gupte". The Telegraph. 20 June 2002. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  4. ^ "C.K. Nayudu award for Kapil Dev". The Hindu. 18 December 2013. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 April 2023.