C. S. Nayudu

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = C. S. Nayudu

| image = Nayudu brothers c1934.jpg

| image_size =

| caption = Left-right: C.K., C.S. and C.L. Nayudu

| birth_date = 18 April 1914

| birth_place = Nagpur, Maharashtra, British India

| death_date = 22 November 2002 (aged 88)

| death_place = Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Leg-break googly

| columns = 2

| column1 = Test

| matches1 = 11

| runs1 = 147

| bat avg1 = 9.18

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 36

| deliveries1 = 522

| wickets1 = 2

| bowl avg1 = 179.50

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 1/19

| catches/stumpings1= 3/–

| column2 = First-class

| matches2 = 174

| runs2 = 5,786

| bat avg2 = 23.90

| 100s/50s2 = 4/33

| top score2 = 127

| deliveries2 = 30,961

| wickets2 = 647

| bowl avg2 = 26.54

| fivefor2 = 50

| tenfor2 = 13

| best bowling2 = 8/93

| catches/stumpings2= 144/–

| country = India

| international = true

| internationalspan = 1934–1952

| testdebutagainst = England

| testcap = 20

| testdebutdate = 5 January

| testdebutyear = 1934

| lasttestagainst = England

| lasttestdate = 12 January

| lasttestyear = 1952

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/31813.html ESPNcricinfo

| date = 24 May

| year = 2020

}}

Cottari Subbanna Nayudu ({{audio|C. S. Nayadu.ogg|pronunciation}}; 18 April 1914 – 22 November 2002) was an Indian cricketer who played in eleven Tests from 1934 to 1952. He was an allrounder, and had a distinguished Ranji Trophy career between 1931–32 and 1961–62. He was the younger brother of the cricketer C. K. Nayudu.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/31813.html |title=C. S. Nayudu|access-date=24 May 2020 |work=ESPNcricinfo}}{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149597.html |title=The IPL is born |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=18 April 2018}}

Early life

Cottari Subbanna Nayudu was born on 18 April 1914 in Nagpur to a Telugu-speaking Kapu family.M. L. Kantha Rao (July 1999), [https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/25437/ A Study of the Socio-Political Mobility of the Kapu Caste in Modern Andhra]. University of Hyderabad. Chapter 6. p. 301–303. hdl:10603/25437{{Cite book |last1=A. Vijaya Kumari |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r-ffeWmj2JUC&q=kapu&pg=PA89 |title=Social Change Among Balijas: Majority Community of Andhra Pradesh |last2=Sepuri Bhaskar |date=1998 |publisher=M.D. Publications |isbn=978-81-7533-072-6 |pages=14 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Mukherji |first=Raju |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-fpQAQAAIAAJ&q=Telugu |title=Cricket in India: Origin and Heroes |date=2005 |publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors |isbn=978-81-7476-508-6 |pages=13 |language=en}} His parents were Cottari Surya Prakash Rao Nayudu and Mahalaxmi.{{Cite book |last=Nayudu |first=Chandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0PeBAAAAMAAJ&q=narayanswamy |title=C.K. Nayudu, a Daughter Remembers |date=1995 |publisher=Rupa |isbn=978-81-7167-283-7 |pages=3 |language=en |author-link=Chandra Nayudu}} C. S. Nayudu's ancestors hailed from Machilipatnam town in Andhra Pradesh.{{Cite book |last=Nayudu |first=Chandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0PeBAAAAMAAJ&q=Andhra |title=C.K. Nayudu, a Daughter Remembers |date=1995 |publisher=Rupa |isbn=978-81-7167-283-7 |pages=3 |language=en |author-link=Chandra Nayudu}}{{Cite news |last=Naidu |first=T. Appala |date=2018-06-29 |title=Row over C.K. Nayudu's statue |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/row-over-ck-nayudus-statue/article24286482.ece |access-date=2023-04-11 |issn=0971-751X}} C. S. Nayudu's older brother C. K. Nayudu was the first captain of Indian national cricket team.

Career

C. S. Nayudu played his first first-class match in 1932 when he was 17, and his last in 1961 when he was 46.{{cite web|title=First-Class Matches played by C.S. Nayudu|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/634/First-Class_Matches.html|website=CricketArchive|access-date=16 September 2017}} He played 56 Ranji Trophy matches, representing eight teams and captaining four of them.Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2003, pp. 1643–44. In the 1942–43 Ranji Trophy tournament, he became the first bowler to take forty wickets in one season in India. In the final of the 1944–45 Ranji Trophy, he bowled a record of 917 balls in one Ranji Trophy match.