AG Kripal Singh
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Amritsar Govindsingh Kripal Singh's pronunciation (July 20, 1933-to-day) was a Test cricketer in India.
Life and career
Kripal Singh came from a prominent cricketing family. His father, A. G. Ram Singh, was unfortunate not to play for India, and his brother, Milkha Singh, two sons, his daughter, and a nephew all played first-class cricket. He was both an attacking batsman and a versatile off spin bowler.
He was instrumental in Madras' winning the Ranji Trophy in 1954–55, scoring 636 runs and taking 13 wickets. He was 98 and 97 in the semi-finals against Bengal, the second innings runs out of a total of 139, with no one else reaching double figures. He was out for 68 runs in the second innings, and took 4 for 18 in the second innings. Kripal had university exams at the time of the final and was granted a postponement by the university. In a narrow win over Holkar, he scored 75 runs and 91 seven wickets. Against Travancore-Cochin earlier in the season, he recorded his best score of 208.
He scored 100* on his debut, and he was selected for the Test series against New Zealand in the following season. That was to be his only Test hundred. In 1958–59, he scored two other fifties, one a defiant 53 against the West Indies.
In 1959, Kripal visited England. He scored 178 against Lancashire and appeared in one Test where he scored 41 points. His appearances were severely limited due to a finger injury. Though he remained within the sight of the selectors, his Test appearances were inconsistent thereafter. He appeared in three Tests from 1961-62 and two in 1963-64, all against England. He took his first wicket in Test cricket in the Third Test in 1961-62. Before this, he had bowled 588 balls in nine wickets and ten Tests, and no bowler has taken so many wickets for his first wicket. He was involved in a controversy that ended Subhash Gupte's career in the same test.
Kripal fielded for them almost as a permanent substitute in one of the Test matches in 1963-64 when many English players were down due to injury and illness. Kripal became more of a bowler towards the end of his career. In the first ever Duleep Trophy match, he captained Tamil Nadu and South Zone.
Kripal was born a Sikh but after his Test appearances, he fell in love with a Christian girl and married her, shaved his beard and had hair cut. Nonetheless, he followed both faiths. That makes him the first Test cricketer to represent two faiths.
Kripal died as a result of a heart arrest at the age of 53. At the time of his death, he was a national selector.