Napoleon Einstein is an Indian cricketer

Cricketer

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. He is a right-handed opening batsman. He plays in the Indian Premier League

Indian Premier League

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 for the Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings

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Einstein made his List A debut for Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu cricket team

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 against Kerala

Kerala cricket team

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 in a Ranji One-Day Trophy match at Secunderabad

Secunderabad

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 in February 2007. Opening the batting, he scored 92, putting on 203 for the first wicket with Murali Vijay

Murali Vijay

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 to set up a 46-run win.
A month later, he played against Assam

Assam cricket team

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 in the same competition but this time made only 1.

He has been batting, and bowling off spinners in under-19 tournaments and has been selected for the Indian team for the under-19 World cup to be held in Malaysia in Feb 2008. India went on to win the under-19 world cup.

Name

Napoleon's personal explanation of his unusual name.
"My grandfather

Poondi Kumaraswamy

Ponnambalam Kumaraswamy was a leading hydrologist from India. He was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1972 although his only formal education was a Civil Engineering degree from College of Engineering, Guindy, University of Madras...

 was a scientist

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. He wrote a letter to Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...

 and even got a reply from him. I've got no idea [what the letter was about] even though I've read it. My mother was a physics graduate and she teaches Physics in one of the schools. So I'm Einstein. Napoleon is my father's name."

"We don't believe in God. In our family, we're rationalists. Other people are named Krishna

Krishna

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 and Ram

Rama

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 after Gods, so we were named Einstein and Napoleon after great people."

In media

Napoleon's name has recently been immortalized in a comedy cricket blog called The Napoleon Einstein Cricket Blog, which was founded in 2010. The blog reports on cricket in the Test and Associate/Affiliate Worlds as well as music, art, pop culture, and simply farce. As it stands now, the URL is www.napoleoneinstein.wordpress.com .

External links

• Statistical summary from CricketArchive
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• Lists of matches and detailed statistics for Napoleon Einstein from CricketArchive
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• http://napoleoneinstein.wordpress.com/about/who-is-napoleon-einstein/