Charanjive Kumar Sharma (born 1946) is a former

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n cricketer who played internationally for

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, including captaining them at the

1979 ICC Trophy The 1979 ICC Trophy was a limited overs cricket tournament held in England between 22 May and 21 June 1979. It was the inaugural ICC Trophy tournament to be staged, with matches between the 15 participating teams played over 60 overs a side and w ...

. A regular player for

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in regional tournaments, Sharma first played for East Africa in 1972, when he toured England and played against several county teams. He was the most consistent East African batsman on the tour, scoring 725 runs in 24 innings including a top score of 82 against

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.Hugh Collins
"East African Tour"
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'', Winter Annual 1972, p. 79. He missed the

1975 Cricket World Cup The 1975 Cricket World Cup (officially called the Prudential Cup '75) was the inaugural men's Cricket World Cup, and the first major tournament in the history of One Day International (ODI) cricket. Organised by the International Cricket Confer ...

, but captained the East African team the

in England. He was the team's third highest run scorer at the tournament and its second highest wicket taker.

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