Shyamal Sinha, also known as Shyamlal Sinha, (10 July 1930 – 7 June 1963) 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 and cricket coach. Sinha played regularly for

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from 1951-52 to 1962-63 as a bowler. His best figures were 4 for 82 off 29 overs against

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in 1958-59. His highest score was 34 not out at number nine, the second-top score of the innings, in a close victory over

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in 1960-61. While teaching at his alma mater,

Patna University Patna University is a public state university in Patna, Bihar, India. It was established on 1 October 1917 during the British Raj. It is the first university in Bihar and the seventh oldest university in the Indian subcontinent in the modern er ...

, in the 1950s, he and some of his colleagues, including

Sujit Mukherjee Sujit Mukherjee (21 August 1930 – 14 January 2003) was an Indian writer, translator, literary critic, publisher, teacher and cricketer. Career Sujit Mukherjee was born in the village of Ariadaha, south of Calcutta, and educated at St. Xavier' ...

, began informally coaching local boys and promoting cricket in

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. Sinha was appointed state cricket coach by the

government, a position he held until his early death. The cricket competition among Bihar schools has since been held for the Shyamal Sinha Memorial Trophy.Mukherjee, p. 65-66.

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