Sharad Jagannath Diwadkar (11 January 1936,

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- 1 March 2005, Mumbai) was a

cricketer. He was an

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ning

all-rounder An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a handful of batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are consi ...

who played 82 first class matches between 1957-58 and 1973-74. Diwadkar's best match bowling figures were 11 for 146 (5 for 74 and 6 for 72), when he helped

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recover from a first-innings deficit to win the final of the 1966-67

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over Indian Starlets by 16 runs. His best innings figures were 6 for 19, off 20 overs, when

beat Saurashtra by an innings in the 1965-66

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. He made his highest score of 177 in the Ranji Trophy final of 1963-64, when Bombay defeated

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Makarand Waingankar, "This Jimmy couldn't play for India"
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