Bimal Bose
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Calcutta, British India
Jamshedpur, Bihar, India
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| Full name | Bimal Krishna Bose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 June 1918 Calcutta, British India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 May 1996 (aged 77) Jamshedpur, Bihar, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1940-41 to 1963-64 | Bihar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1949-50 to 1960-61 | East Zone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 11 January 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bimal Krishna Bose (16 June 1918 – 20 May 1996) was an Indian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Bihar from 1940 to 1963, captaining the team from 1953–54 to 1957–58.[1] His elder brother was famous revolutionary Benoy Basu.[2]
Bimal Bose made his first-class debut for Bihar in the 1940–41 season as a left-arm medium-paced opening bowler, and was seldom out of the team for the next 23 seasons. He batted low in the order, and made his highest score of 66 against Bengal in his second match. Bihar needed 264 to take the first-innings lead, which in a drawn match, as this one seemed likely to be, effectively counted as a victory. Bose went in at 149 for seven, and was last man out, caught on the boundary going for the six that would have taken Bihar into the lead.[3]
In the 1948-49 Ranji Trophy match against Delhi he took 7 for 42 in the first innings, then when Delhi needed only 78 in the second innings to win he and his captain Shute Banerjee dismissed them in 21 overs for 48, Bose taking 4 for 25.[4]
Captain of Bihar
In his first match as captain in 1953–54 Bose took 3 for 71 and 6 for 65 in a drawn match against Bengal.[5] In his next match, in 1954–55, he led Bihar to victory over Assam, taking 6 for 16 and 6 for 31 at Jorhat.[6]
In the 1957–58 season he took 8 for 43 (the other two batsmen were run out) and 2 for 36 against Assam in an innings victory,[7] 4 for 32 and 7 for 31, bowling unchanged through both innings, in another innings victory over Orissa,[8] and 5 for 87 off 46 overs in an innings loss to Bengal.[9] His 8 for 43 remained the best-ever innings figures for Bihar;[10] his overall record of 205 Ranji Trophy wickets is also the highest for Bihar.[1] He took 26 wickets at an average of 8.80 in that season.[11]