Pranlal Divecha played cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 for Tanzania between 1967 and 1972 and also played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 for East Africa.

Career

Pranlal Divecha made his debut for Tanzania in a match against India in 1967. He took three wickets in the Indian first innings including those of captain

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 Nawab of Pataudi

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 and Bishan Bedi. The following year he played in an East African Quadrangular tournament in Nairobi

Nairobi

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, taking 5/113 in the first innings of the match against Zambia.

In 1970 he again played in the East African Quadrangular tournament, this time in Kampala

Kampala

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. The tournament was a triangular in 1971 and 1972 when he also played. He played his only first-class match in 1974 when he played for East Africa in a 237 run defeat by the MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

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