Indian Starlets
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Indian Starlets were a team of young Indian cricketers who played 16 first-class matches between 1960 and 1967.
Seventeen players took part in a tour of Pakistan in April and May 1960. They played seven first-class matches; all were drawn.[1] The players, with their ages at the beginning of the tour, were:
- Sudhakar Adhikari (20)
- Lala Amarnath (48) (captain in the two matches he played)
- Prem Bhatia[2] (20)
- Dinabandu[3] (age unknown)
- Farokh Engineer (22)
- William Ghosh (31)
- Habib Ahmed[4] (21) (captain in four of the five matches he played)
- Harcharan Singh[5] (21)
- M. L. Jaisimha (21) (captain in one of the five matches he played)
- V. V. Kumar (24)
- Gulshran Mehra[6] (22)
- Madan Mehra[7] (25)
- Vijay Mehra (22)
- A. G. Milkha Singh (18)
- B. B. Nimbalkar (40)
- Chatta Ramesh[8] (26)
- Ponnuswami Sitaram[9] (27)
Milkha Singh was the leading batsman, with 469 runs at an average of 117.25 and three centuries.[10] Ghosh, Kumar and Sitaram were the most successful bowlers.[11]
Apart from the experienced Amarnath, while most of the players had substantial careers in Indian domestic cricket, only Engineer, Jaisimha, Kumar, Vijay Mehra and Milkha Singh went on to play Test cricket.