11 March - Vijay Hazare was born in 1915

 

Vijay Samuel Hazare (11 March 1915 – 18 December 2004) was an Indian cricketer. He captained India in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953. In India's 25th Test match, nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status, he led India to its first ever Test cricket win (and the only victory under his captaincy) in 1951–52 against England at Madras, winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that began on the day that King George VI died.

A Special Cover on Captain Vijay Hazare was issued during GUJPEX 2011 at Vadodara on 23 Dec 2011. Vijay Samuel Hazare (11 Mar 1915-18 Dec 2004) captained India in 14 test matches between 1951 & 1953. He has the following records to his Credit

•     He led India to its first test win vs England at Chennai (then Madras) in 1951-52.
•     He is First Indian to hit first Triple Century in First Class Cricket.
•     First Indian to score a century in each innings of a test match vs Australia at Adelaide in 1947-48 (116 & 145).
•     First Indian to score two triple centuries.
•     First Indian to score a century in three successive test matches.
•     He bagged 20 test wickets including three times Bradman’s wickets.
•     The Inter-Zonal tournament in India is named as Vijay Hazare Trophy.
•     He and Jasu Patel were the first Indian Cricketers to be honoured with Padma Shri.