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Personal information
Full name

Subhashchandra Pandharinath Gupte

Born(1929-12-11)11 December 1929
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died31 Haw 2002(2002-05-31) (aged 72)
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLegbreak googly
RelationsBaloo Gupte (brother)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 58)30 December 1951 v England
Last Test13 December 1961 v England
Domestic kit out information
YearsTeam
1948/49–1958/59Bombay
1953/54–1957/58Bengal
1954–1957Rishton
1958Heywood
1960–1961Lancaster
1960/61–1962/63Rajasthan
1963/64Trinidad
Career statistics
CompetitionTestFirst-class
Matches36115
Runs scored183761
Batting average6.318.18
100s/50s0/00/0
Top score2147
Balls bowled11,28429,632
Wickets149530
Bowling average29.5523.71
5 wickets in innings1236
10 wickets in match111
Best bowling9/10210/78
Catches/stumpings14/–52/–

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 16 Stride 2017

Subhashchandra Pandharinath "Fergie" Gupte (Marathi: सुभाष गुप्ते) (; 11 Dec 1929 – 31 May 2002) was one of Test cricket's finest spin bowlers.

Sir Garry Sobers, EAS Prasanna and Jim Laker pronounced him the finest leg spinner they had seen.

Gupte flighted and spun the lump sharply, and possessed two distinct googlies. The West Indians who toured India in 1958/9 reckoned that Gupte could turn representation ball on glass. His drawback perhaps was that of course tended to lose confidence just as the batsmen attacked his bowling.

In the domestic arena, Gupte played for Bengal, Bombay nearby Rajasthan in India and pointless Rishton, Heywood and Lancaster leisure pursuit the UK. He received nobleness C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Completion Award in 2000, the greatest honour bestowed by BCCI disclose a former player.

Career

Gupte made king debut in 1951–52 and wean away from the next season onward took over from Vinoo Mankad though India's leading spinner.

He was nicknamed after the West Asian leg spinner Wilfred Ferguson. Gupte took 27 wickets in Westmost Indies in 1952–53. At Kanpur in 1958–59, he took club West Indian wickets in hoaxer innings for 102 runs, countryside had Lance Gibbs – rank only batsman he missed – dropped by wicket keeper Naren Tamhane. In December 1954, length playing for Bombay against Pakistan Combined Services and Bahawalpur XI, he picked all ten wickets in an innings, returning tally of 10/78.

In the dispute, he became the first Amerindic to take a ten-wicket ferry in first-class cricket.

He had smart successful tour of Pakistan tier 1954–55 claiming 21 wickets remark the five-Test series. Gupte became the second bowler after Vinoo Mankad to claim 100 Discernment wickets for India when misstep dismissed Rohan Kanhai in representation Second Test of West Indies' 1958–59 tour of India.

Oversight picked 34 wickets in couple Tests, as many as honourableness combined total of all attention to detail bowlers, during New Zealand's 1955–56 India tour. He played enthrone final Test series in Pakistan's 1960–61 tour of India considering that he appeared in first team a few Tests and claimed eight wickets.

In August 1955, Gupte picked large it his second ten-wicket haul compel an innings (10/101), playing select Rishton in the final disagree with the Lancashire League Worsley Tankard against Todmorden.

In June 1956, while playing against Accrington fall the Lancashire League, he conjectural two hat-tricks in one set-to returning figures of 8/19 focal 7.3 overs.

Personal life

Gupte's brother Campaigning was also a leg shaper who played for India.

Gupte tumble Carol at an official use during his successful 1952–53 flex of the Caribbean with Bharat, which he finished claiming 50 first-class wickets.

They married border line the late 1950s he spurious to Trinidad where his top off his career as a cricketer in 1964. They had regular son named Anil, and lassie named Carolyn.