Bahadur Edulji Kapadia (9 April 1900 – 1 January 1973) was an Indian

cricketer Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

who played

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 ...

from 1920 to 1935. Kapadia was a wicket-keeper and useful lower middle-order batsman. As India's reserve wicketkeeper to

Janardan Navle Janardan Gyanoba Navle (pronounced Nuw-lay) (7 December 1902 – 7 September 1979) was an early Indian Test cricketer. Career Navle faced the historic first delivery of India's first Test innings in 1932. He opened in both innings at Lord's i ...

on their first Test touring team in 1932, his opportunities were limited. He played most of his first-class cricket for the

Parsees Parsis () or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism. They are descended from Persians who migrated to Medieval India during and after the Arab conquest of Iran (part of the early Muslim co ...

in the

Bombay Quadrangular The Bombay Quadrangular was an influential cricket tournament held in Bombay, British India between 1892–93 and 1945–46. At other times it was known variously as the Presidency Match, Bombay Triangular, and the Bombay Pentangular. Presidency ...

from 1920-21 to 1935-36, and was a member of their championship-winning teams in 1922-23 and 1928-29.

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