Question

Who was C.K.Nayudu?

Answer 1

Hint:We have to remember that the C.K.Nayudu’s father was Cottari Surya Prakash Rao Nayudu. His grandfather was Rao Bahadur Cottari Narayana Swamy Nayudu. His grandfather was a rich kapu from Andhra Pradesh. His grandfather was also a lawyer and landlord who held several villages in Nagpur.

Complete answer:
We must remember that the C.K.Nayudu was the first captain of the Indian Cricket team in Test matches. C.K.Nayudu was also known as Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu. He was born on 31 October 1895 in Nagpur in India. His grace for cricket started at the age of seven. His performance in the school cricket team showed that he would have a promising career in cricket. His first match was against the Europeans in the Bombay Triangular in 1916 . In the Bombay Triangular he played for the Hindus. In that match he came to the ground as the ninth batsman. C.K. Nayudu’s best performance was shown in the MCC match held by Arthur Gilligan at Bombay Gymkhana in 1926 . That was the first time in history an England team came to India for a cricket tour. In that match Nayudu scored 153 runs in 116 minutes with 11 sixes. His best performance won the silver bat . Our Indian government awarded Nayudu the Padma Bhushan award in1956 . He played his last Ranji trophy in 1957 at the age of 62 . At the match he scored 84 runs against Rajasthan and this made him the oldest batsman to score highest runs in a first class match. His last match was for a charity in 1964 .
We have to know that the C.k.Nayudu scored 350 runs in test matches and 11,825 runs in first class matches during his life-time. As a total he scored 12,175 runs in his whole life. He played 207 first class matches and 7 test matches in his life-time.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note:We have to know that the Cottari kanakaiya nayudu was a Right handed batsman. He was also a right-arm slow-medium bowler. His batting average is 35.94 in first class matches and 25.00 in test matches. His bowling average was 29.28 in first class matches and 42.88 in test matches.
He bowled 858 balls in test series and 25,798 balls in first class matches as a total he bowled 26,656 balls in his lifetime.Nayudu died in 1967 in Indore at the age of 72 . He was a chain smoker and he died of “protracted illness with acute respiratory problems”.