Farokh Engineer

Farokh Engineer
Personal information
Full name Farokh Maneksha Engineer
Born (1938-02-25) 25 February 1938
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Role Wicket-keeper, batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 102) 1 December 1961 v England
Last Test 23 January 1975 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 3) 13 July 1974 v England
Last ODI 14 June 1975 v New Zealand
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs FC LA
Matches 46 5 335 160
Runs scored 2611 114 13436 3008
Batting average 31.08 38.00 29.52 23.31
100s/50s 2/16 -/1 13/69 0/12
Top score 121 54* 192 93
Balls bowled - - 132 -
Wickets - - 1 -
Bowling average - - 117.00 -
5 wickets in innings - - 0 -
10 wickets in match - n/a 0 -
Best bowling - - 1/40 -
Catches/stumpings 66/16 3/1 704/120 159/31
Source: CricInfo, 6 August 2013

Farokh Maneksha Engineer  pronunciation  (born 25 February 1938, in Bombay) is a former Indian cricketer of Parsi background. He played 46 Tests for India, and he played first-class cricket for Bombay in India from 1959 to 1975 and for Lancashire in England from 1968 to 1976.

He studied at Podar College, Matunga.

His active international career started in 1961 and continued to 1975, and he was India's first-choice wicket-keeper for most of that period, keeping wicket for the spin quartet of Bedi, Prasanna, Chandrasekhar and Venkataraghavan.. He was also a highly useful, stylish and very aggressive batsman, scoring two Test centuries.

He was the wicketkeeper for the "Rest of the World" team that played matches against England in 1970 and against Australia in 1971-72. He played for Lancashire in the match against Derbyshire at Park Road, Buxton in June 1975 in which play was famously stopped due to snow. Following in the footsteps of Keith Miller and Denis Compton, Engineer was a model for Brylcreem.

He was Indian Cricket Cricketer of the Year in 1965, and he was awarded the Padma Shri in 1973.

He is currently a match referee in the Indian Premier League.

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