Pananmal Punjabi

Pananmal Hotchand Punjabi pronunciationⓘ (20 September 1921 – 4 October 2011) was an Indian cricketer who played in five Test matches in 1955.[1] A right-handed opening batsman, Punjabi had a long but somewhat intermittent first-class cricket career, starting with two matches for Sind before partition and resuming more regularly from 1951 for Gujarat.He opened the batting in all five Tests with Pankaj Roy, and scored 164 runs, the fourth highest aggregate for the team.Despite his name, Punjabi came from Karachi, spoke Sindhi, represented Gujarat for most of his first class career, and was employed as a supervisor in Burmah Shell.This biographical article related to an Indian cricket person born in the 1920s is a stub.
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