List of People of Indore - Sports Persons

Sports Persons

  • Colonel C.K. Nayudu, first Indian Test Captain in cricket. He led India between 1932 and 1934.
  • Captain Mushtaq Ali, Colonel Nayudu's team-mate in the Holkar team and in the Indian team. Popularly known as the 'Errol Flynn' of Indian cricket.
  • Chandu Sarwate, former cricketer and former selector.
  • Sanjay Jagdale, former state cricketer. Presently one of the national selectors for the senior all-India teams and the honorary secretary of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association. He is also the director of the Cricket Club of Indore.
  • Raj Singh Dungarpur, former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and a former selector. An ex-student of Daly College, Indore.
  • Rahul Dravid, an Indian cricketer, and the former captain of the Indian cricket, born in Indore.
  • Narendra Hirwani, a leg spin bowler and former member of Indian cricket team moved to Indore when he was a teenager.
  • Amay Khurasiya, former member of Indian Cricket team has studied in Indore.
  • Sandhya Agarwal, former captain of Indian women's cricket team.
  • Honorary Captain Shankar Lakshman (1933–2006), goalkeeper of the Indian hockey team in the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won two golds and a silver. Captain of the team which won the gold in the 1966 Asian Games. He belonged to Mhow and lived his retired life here till his death on Apr 29 2006.
  • Mir Ranjan Negi Hockey goalkeeper & Coach of Indian Women Team who's won Asian Championship.

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