Full name Janardan Gyanoba Navle Name Janardan Navle | Bowling style n/a Role Cricket Player National side Indian | |
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Last Test 15 December 1933 v England | ||
Batting style Right-hand bat (RHB) | ||
Janardan Gyanoba Navle pronunciation (pronounced Nuw-lay) (7 December 1902, Fulgaon, Maharashtra, India – 7 September 1979, Poona, now Pune) was an early Indian Test cricketer.
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Career
Navle faced the historic first delivery of India's first Test innings in 1932. He opened in both innings at Lord's in 1932 and also kept wickets. A small man, Wisden called him "a first-rate wicket-keeper, very quick in all that he did". He played for Indians against Arthur Gilligan's MCC team in 1926-27 and Jack Ryder's Australians nine years later. For many years he kept wickets for Hindus in the Bombay Quadrangular and Pentangular tournaments. He made his debut for Hindus at the age of 16.
Personal life
In his later life he worked as a security guard in a sugar mill and lived in a humble two room flat in Poona. He had his schooling at the Bhave School in Poona.