Amritsar Govindsingh Ram Singh (14 July 1910 – 11 August 1999) was an Indian

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er. An allrounder, he bowled slow left-arm orthodox and was a left-handed middle order batsman. His sons

A. G. Kripal Singh Amritsar Govindsingh Kripal Singh (6 August 1933 – 22 July 1987) was an Indian Test cricketer. Life and career Kripal Singh came from a famous cricketing family. His father A. G. Ram Singh was unlucky not to play for India, his brother Mi ...

and

A. G. Milkha Singh Amritsar Govindsingh Milkha Singh () (31 December 1941 10 November 2017) was an Indian Test cricketer. Milkha Singh was a left-handed batsman and an occasional right arm medium pace bowler. He came from a famous cricketing family which also pr ...

played Test cricket for India. Ram Singh played for

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and was just the second player to achieve the

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double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets. He was the first bowler to take

5 wickets in an innings In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") occurs when a bowler takes five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded by critics as a notable achievement, equivalent to a century from a batsman. Taking ...

and

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in the Ranji Trophy. He achieved that feat in November 1934, in the first match of the Ranji Trophy, playing for Madras against

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, and finishing with 11 wickets for 34. He took his best ever innings figures of 8 for 14 the next season, in a Madras Presidency Match, playing for the Indians against the Europeans, when he took 13 for 49 in the match and also hit 70, the highest score on either side. He was a much loved cricket coach for the schoolboys of Sir M Venkatasubba Rao Boys School in T Nagar,

, during the late 1970s and the 1980s. His dedication to the game and to the young cricketers was something which those he coached have kept very close to their cricketing hearts.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ram Singh, A.G. 1910 births 1999 deaths Indian cricketers Tamil Nadu cricketers South Zone cricketers Cricketers from Chennai