Ponnabeth Mambally Anandan (born 1 December 1924) is a former

cricket 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 ...

er who played first-class cricket in India from 1951 to 1957. Anandan was an opening bowler who made his first-class debut in 1951–52 in what was also Travancore-Cochin's first first-class match. He took five or more wickets in an innings in each of his first three matches: 6 for 100 against Mysore in 1951–52, 5 for 65 against Mysore in 1952–53, and 5 for 38 against Hyderabad in 1953–54. His older brother

P. M. Raghavan Ponnabeth Mambally Raghavan (18 December 1920, date of death unknown) was an Indian cricketer who played at first-class cricket, first-class level for Travancore-Cochin cricket team, Travancore-Cochin (now Kerala cricket team, Kerala) from 1951 ...

also played first-class cricket for Travancore-Cochin.

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