Bimal Bose

Bimal Krishna Bose (16 June 1918 – 20 May 1996) played first-class cricket for Bihar from 1940 to 1963, captaining the team from 1953-54 to 1957-58.

For the scientist, see Bimal Kumar Bose.
Bimal Bose
Personal information
Full nameBimal Krishna Bose
Born(1918-06-16)16 June 1918
Calcutta, British India
Died20 May 1996(1996-05-20) (aged 77)
Jamshedpur, Bihar, India
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingLeft-arm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1940-41 to 1963-64Bihar
1949-50 to 1960-61East Zone
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 45
Runs scored 619
Batting average 12.38
100s/50s 0/3
Top score 66
Balls bowled 9466
Wickets 209
Bowling average 18.26
5 wickets in innings 15
10 wickets in match 6
Best bowling 8/43
Catches/stumpings 14/–
Source: Cricket Archive, 11 January 2015

Early career

Bimal Bose made his first-class debut for Bihar in the 1940-41 season as a left-arm medium-paced opening bowler, and was seldom out of the team for the next 23 seasons. He batted low in the order, and made his highest score of 66 against Bengal in his second match. Bihar needed 264 to take the first-innings lead, which in a drawn match, as this one seemed likely to be, effectively counted as a victory. Bose went in at 149 for seven, and was last man out, caught on the boundary going for the six that would have taken Bihar into the lead.[1]

In the 1948-49 Ranji Trophy match against Delhi he took 7 for 42 in the first innings, then when Delhi needed only 78 in the second innings to win he and his captain Shute Banerjee dismissed them in 21 overs for 48, Bose taking 4 for 25.[2]

Captain of Bihar

In his first match as captain in 1953-54 Bose took 3 for 71 and 6 for 65 in a drawn match against Bengal.[3] In his next match, in 1954-55, he led Bihar to victory over Assam, taking 6 for 16 and 6 for 31 at Jorhat.[4]

In the 1957-58 season he took 8 for 43 (the other two batsmen were run out) and 2 for 36 against Assam in an innings victory,[5] 4 for 32 and 7 for 31, bowling unchanged through both innings, in another innings victory over Orissa,[6] and 5 for 87 off 46 overs in an innings loss to Bengal.[7] His 8 for 43 remained the best-ever innings figures for Bihar;[8] his overall record of 205 Ranji Trophy wickets is also the highest for Bihar.[9] He took 26 wickets at an average of 8.80 in that season.[10]

Later career

Bose's most successful season came two seasons later in 1959-60, when at the age of 41 he took 34 wickets at 14.29 in four matches. He began with 5 for 42 and 3 for 11 against Assam,[11] then took 6 for 42 and 5 for 137 to give Bihar their first-ever victory over Bengal at the twenty-third attempt, and take Bihar into the Ranji Trophy semi-finals for the first time.[12][13] They lost to Mysore in the semi-final on Bihar's home ground, Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur, but Bose took 6 for 78 and 6 for 95, bowling 51 overs out of 108 in the second innings.[14] He played his last match in 1963-64.

His brothers Bikash[15] and Biraj[16] also played for Bihar in the 1950s.[17] All three played in Bihar's two matches in 1950-51.

References
  1. Sujit Mukherjee, Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer, Ravi Dayal, Delhi, 1996, p. 68.
  2. "Bihar v Delhi 1948-49". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  3. "Bihar v Bengal 1953-54". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  4. "Assam v Bihar 1954-55". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  5. "Bihar v Assam 1957-58". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  6. "Orissa v Bihar 1957-58". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  7. "Bihar v Bengal 1957-58". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  8. "Most wickets in an innings for Bihar". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  9. Wisden 1997, p. 1399.
  10. "Bowling in each season by Bimal Bose". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  11. "Bihar v Assam 1959-60". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  12. "Bihar v Bengal 1959-60". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  13. Mukherjee, p. 69.
  14. "Bihar v Mysore 1959-60". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  15. Bikash Bose at Cricket Archive
  16. Biraj Bose at Cricket Archive
  17. Cricketing Brothers who have represented the State of Bihar Retrieved 11 January 2015.
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