Raman subba row biography
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There will be a strange, sad, empty space on a bench near the boundary of the Old Whitgiftians&#; Croham Road cricket ground in South Croydon this summer.
Raman Subba Row
It is a spot where Raman Subba Row used to sit in the shade, half a pint of cool cider in hand, watching the Old Whitgiftians -OWs &#; team play and happy to chat with any who happened to pass by.
For Subba Row, former Surrey and England batsman, Northamptonshire captain and one of the great reforming figures of cricket in the late 20th Century, has died. He was 92, and was England&#;s oldest surviving Test player by the time of his death this week.
Born in Pendennis Road, Streatham, in January , Subba Row forged a lifelong association with Croydon when he attended Whitgift School.
It really was a lifelong association, since to his great good fortune, and that of anyone who had the pleasure of his company for an hour or so on a warm afternoon in the cricket season, he settled his family home in one of the large, comfortable houses that back on to the cricket ground. With a little gate in the fence at the end of his garden, in his later years, Subba Row would emerge and slowly stroll towards the club house, where he&#;s get a drink, have a chat and let the hours pass by watching the generations of
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Born
January 29, , Streatham, London
Died
April 17, (aged 92y 79d)
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak Googly
Education
Whitgift School, Croydon; Cambridge University
London-born and educated at Whitgift School, Raman Subba Row was a solid left-hand opener who could also bat in the middle order. Initially very leg-sided, he adapted his style and finished his career as a punishing driver and stealer of singles. He was also a legspinner, used more as a shock weapon than a regular bowler, but he was good enough to take 5 for 21 in the Varsity match. He was in the Cambridge side for three years () and also won a Blue at fives. He was also a fine slip fielder who could also more than hold his own in the deep. Although he played two seasons for Surrey, he blossomed after moving to Northamptonshire and won the first of his 13 Test caps in , making a hundred in his first Test overseas and then scoring centuries in the first and last Ashes Tests in His retirement at the end of that summer (after which he was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year)
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A ‘gentleman’ sportsman who challenged cricket’s Establishment
Raman Subba Row: Cricket Fanciful
by Politico Miller
(Charlcombe Books, £15)
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