Premangsu Chatterjee

Premangsu Mohan Chatterjee (10 August 1927 – 12 July 2011) was an Indian first-class cricketer who represented Bengal as a left-arm medium bowler between 1946/47 and 1959/60, taking 134 first class wickets at 17.75. He was born at Cuttack, Orissa and died at Kolkata, West Bengal.[1]

Premangsu Chatterjee

Personal information
Full name	Premangsu Mohan Chatterjee
Born	10 August 1927 Cuttack, Orissa
Died	12 July 2011 (aged 83) Kolkata, West Bengal
Batting	Left-hand
Bowling	Left-arm medium-pace
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1946-47 to 1959-60	Bengal
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 32 Runs scored 727 Batting average 18.64 100s/50s 0/1 Top score 66 Balls bowled 6509 Wickets 134 Bowling average 17.75 5 wickets in innings 11 10 wickets in match 2 Best bowling 10/20 Catches/stumpings 20/0
Source: Cricinfo, 26 March 2014

In a Ranji Trophy match in Jorhat in January 1957, Chatterjee took all 10 wickets in Assam's first innings,[2] finishing with figures of 10 for 20.[3] This remains the best innings return ever achieved in first-class cricket outside the United Kingdom and the third best of all time.[4] The previous season he had taken 7 for 50 and 8 for 59 against Madhya Pradesh in a semi-final of the Ranji Trophy.[5]

Sujit Mukherjee described batting against him in a minor match in Calcutta:

The ball was by no means new when I went in, but I found it curving and dipping as if with a life of its own. Premangshu [sic] bowled round the wicket and barely at medium pace, but was apparently able to swing the ball all day on any ground in Calcutta ... three times I looked for the ball everywhere, and three times my bat was nowhere near the ball as it swung in, pitched and whisked away ... The fourth ball was of fuller length, way outside the off-stump, and I put my left leg right across and prepared to push it firmly away into the covers. I am sure I went through all the motions correctly, but again missed the ball – which, this time, did not miss my leg-stump.[6]

Premangshu Chatterjee later turned to be very good cricket commentator in Bengali. He had a fluid oration and more than decent voice. As a commentator he was a contemporary of Kamal Bhattacharya, Ajoy Bose and Pushpen Sarkar. He good an opportunity when Tests were played at Eden Gardens or during big Ranji matches at the same venue

References

1. "Former Bengal medium-pacer dies". ESPNcricinfo. 12 July 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
2. "Which Indian batsman made hundreds in five successive Tests this century?". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
3. "Assam v Bengal in 1956/57". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
4. "Nine or More Wickets in an Innings in First-Class Cricket". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
5. Bengal v Madhya Pradesh 1955-56
6. Sujit Mukherjee, Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer, Ravi Dayal, Delhi, 1996, p. 84.

External links

• Premangsu Chatterjee at ESPNcricinfo