International cricketers who have played for Goa in cricket

The following cricketers have played for Goa, and also have been chosen to represent India, or any other subordinate Indian side, in international cricket. Note that these players also include those who are not of Goan origin but have played for Goa.

India
- Praveen Amre
- Roger Binny
- V B Chandrashekhar
- Ajay Ratra
- Sridharan Sriram

India A
- J Arunkumar
- Swapnil Asnodkar
- Nikhil Haldipur

India U-25
- Sanju Mudkavi

India U-19
- Tanveer Jabbar
- Saurabh Bandekar
- Rahul Keni
- Anant Bhagwat
- Manoj Joglekar
- Anju Mudkavi
- Kiran Powar
- Mylvahanan Senthilnathan

UAE
- Dayanand Bangera

India Green
- Shadab Jakati

India Green Women
- Shikha Pandey

Swapnil Asnodkar for India

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Swapnil Asnodkar has found a place in the second string Indian team selected to play 3 one-day matches against Israel from July 10 to July 16.

The Full Squad for Israel - Jaydev Shah (capt), Swapnil Asnodkar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravi Teja, M Vijay, Wriddhiman Saha, Rajat Bhatia, Yogesh Takawale (wk), Rakesh Dhruv, Mohnish Parmar, Vishal Bhatia, Basant Mohanty, Pradeep Sangwan, Ashok Dinda, R Vinay Kumar. The squad selected is a second string selection.

International cricketers for non-test playing countries of Goan origin

Cricketers of Goan origin who have played international cricket

MALAWI
- Jack Britto from 1954 onwards

TANGANYIKA
- Alban Fernandes 1955-1961
- Armand "Chic" Saldanha (was the 12th man)

UGANDA
- Michael D'Sa
- Peter D'Souza 1960-64
- Charlie D'Souza 1954-71
- Lawrence Fernandes 1967-72
- Michael P Texeira 1954-60
- Edwin Fernandes 1953-55
- John Sequeira 1954-58
- Aloysius Mathias 1958-65
- Felix De Mello 1960-68
- Celly Dias 1955-69
- Carlito Mascarenhas 1960-69
- Lawrence Dias 1968-70

ITALY
- Massimo Da Costa for Italy 1996- onwards

CANADA
- Marshall D'Souza 1967-1975

KENYA
- CM Gracias 1946-47
- Blaise D'Cunha 1957-58

BOTSWANA
- Denzil Kenan Sequeira 2006 - current


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International Cricket Matches in Goa

This is the list of cricket matches involving international teams played on Goan soil.

At Bhausaheb Bandodkar Ground, Panaji (Panjim Gymkhana), a first class 3 day match between Ranji champions Tamil Nadu and the touring New Zealanders was played on 19th, 20th, 21st November 1988 Link


The Nehru Stadium at Fatorda, Margao has played host to 8 One day Internationals. Here is the list

1) Australia v Sri Lanka on 25 Oct 1989 Link

2) India v Sri Lanka on 8 Dec 1990 Link

3) New Zealand v West Indies on 26 Oct 1994 Link

4) India v New Zealand on 21 Nov 1995 Link

5) India v Sri Lanka on 28 Dec 1997 Link

6) India v Australia on 6 Apr 2001 Link

7) India v England on 3 Apr 2006 Link

8) India v Sri Lanka on 14 Feb 2007 Link


It has also played host to one youth one day international match
India Under-19s v New Zealand Under-19s on 10th March 1992 Link

In 1968, a 3-day match was organised between two handpicked teams for the benefit of the victims of that Koyna earthquake and was played at Dr Rajendra Prasad Stadium, Margao on 12th, 13th, 14th April 1968. The teams were called Goa Chief Minister's XI and the Maharashtra Finance Minister's XI. Goa Chief Minister's XI won the toss and decided to bat. The Goa Chief Minister's XI won by 146 runs. The players -
Goa Chief Minister's XI - Graham Dowling, Mark Burgess(both of New Zealand), Budhi Kunderan, Madhav Mantri, Bapu Nadkarni, Eknath Solkar, Vijay Bhosle, Shankar More, Sharad Diwadkar, Anwar Shaikh, Umesh Kulkarni
Maharashtra Finance Minister's XI - Prince Indrajitsinhji, Ramnath Parkar, Rusi Surti, Ajit Wadekar, M L Jaisimha, Dilip Sardesai, Manohar Hardikar, Erapalli Prasanna, Ramakant Desai, Padmakar Shivalkar, Kishore Rao
Link

Test Cricketers of Goan origin

Cricketers of Goan origin who have played Test cricket

1) Wallis Mathias for Pakistan in 1955
2) Antao D'Souza for Pakistan in 1959
3) Dilip Sardesai for India in 1961
4) Paras Mhambrey for India in 1996 (traces roots to Aldona)


Goan cricketers for India in age-group tournaments

- Saurabh Bandekar U-19
- Rahul Keni U-19

Dilip Narayan Sardesai

Born August 8, 1940, Margao, Goa
Died July 2, 2007 , Mumbai (aged 66 years 328 days)
Current age 66 years 171 days
Major teams : India, Mumbai
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm bowler

Batting and fielding averages

class	mat	inns	no	runs	hs	ave	100	50	6s	ct	st
Tests	30	55	4	2001	212	39.23	5	9	2	4	0
First-class	179	271	26	10230	222	41.75	25	56		85	0

Bowling averages

class	mat	balls	runs	wkts	bbi	bbm	ave	econ	sr	4	5	10
Tests	30	59	45	0	-	-	-	4.57	-	0	0	0
First-class	179	791	552	8	2/15		69.00	4.18	98.87		0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	India v England at Kanpur - Dec 1-6, 1961 scorecard
Last Test	India v England at Delhi - Dec 20-25, 1972 scorecard
First-class span	1960/61 - 1972/73

The 1970-71 West Indies tour was the last chance for Dilip Sardesai. He was lucky to be picked - it had looked as if his career was dead and buried - he went on to be Indian cricket's Renaissance Man in the watershed year of 1971. A technically correct player, the solid, wristy Sardesai was proficient against spin, but in West Indies he showed his mettle against pace, and pulled India repeatedly out of quicksand. He scored 642 runs, with two single hundreds and a double, and provided an inspirational launching-pad for a legend - Sunil Gavaskar, in his first series. In England later in 1971, Sardesai's pivotal double of 54 and 40 allowed Chandrasekhar to hasten England's defeat at The Oval. Sardesai was limpet-like and usually defensive, but he could attack when he needed to, and scored one of India's fastest hundreds, against New Zealand at Delhi in 1964-65. In the previous Test, his 200 not out at Bombay salvaged a draw after India had been skittled for 88 in the innings. Sardesai enjoyed playing against England: he made his Test debut against them in 1961-62, even before he'd played for Bombay, and it was against England, at Kanpur two years later, that he scored 79 and, after India followed on, 87 to help save the game.
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Antao D'Souza

Born : January 17, 1939, Goa, India
Current age : 68 years 9 days
Major teams : Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan International Airlines, Peshawar Cricket Association Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages

class	mat	inns	no	runs	hs	ave	100	50	6s	ct	st
Tests	6	10	8	76	23*	38.00	0	0	0	3	0
First-class	61	72	29	815	45	18.95	0	0		20	0

Bowling averages

class	mat	balls	runs	wkts	bbi	bbm	ave	econ	sr	4	5	10
Tests	6	1587	745	17	5/112	5/112	43.82	2.81	93.35	1	1	0
First-class	61		4947	190	7/33		26.03				12	1

Career statistics
Test debut	Pakistan v West Indies at Karachi - Feb 20-25, 1959 scorecard
Last Test	England v Pakistan at The Oval - Aug 16-20, 1962 scorecard
First-class span	1956/57 - 1966/67

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Wallis Mathias

Born- February 4, 1935, Karachi, Sind
Died - September 1, 1994, Karachi, Sind (aged 59 years 209 days)
Major teams: Pakistan, Karachi, National Bank of Pakistan, Sind
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm medium

Batting and fielding averages

class	mat	inns	no	runs	hs	ave	100	50	6s	ct	st
Tests	21	36	3	783	77	23.72	0	3	0	22	0
First-class	146	206	37	7520	278*	44.49	16			130	0
List A	1	1	1	51	51*	-	0	1		0	0

Bowling averages

class	mat	balls	runs	wkts	bbi	bbm	ave	econ	sr	4	5	10
Tests	21	24	20	0	-	-	-	5.00	-	0	0	0
First-class	146		532	13	2/4		40.92				0	0
List A	1	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	Pakistan v New Zealand at Dhaka - Nov 7-12, 1955 scorecard
Last Test	England v Pakistan at The Oval - Aug 16-20, 1962 scorecard
First-class span	1953/54 - 1976/77
List A span	1974/75

Wisden obituary
Wallis Mathias, who died on September 1, 1994, after a brain haemorrhage, aged 59, was the first non-Muslim to play for Pakistan. He made his debut in November 1955 as a 20-year-old and played in 21 Tests over the next seven years.

His greatest merit was his fielding; he was the safe pair of hands in the slips that Pakistan's strong medium-pace attack of that era desperately wanted. He had exceptional reflexes and, though he took some spectacular catches, his great skill was to make hard chances look simple.

He was also a middle-order batsman whose figures did not do justice to the usefulness of his runs: he scored 783 runs in Tests at 23.72, but regularly played critical little innings. The 64 and 45 he scored in Pakistan's win over West Indies at Dacca in 1958-59 made him easily the most successful batsman in a low-scoring game; a year earlier he had scored 73 and 77 in successive Tests in the Caribbean. He played three Tests in England in 1962, but the following year he suffered a finger injury in the nets which left him with a slight deformity that restricted his brilliant catching. He continued in domestic cricket and scored 278 not out for Karachi Blues against Railway Greens in 1965-66. In 1969-70 he became National Bank's first captain and played on until 1975-76 before becoming coach, selector and manager. In 146 first-class matches he made 7,520 runs, average 44.49, including 16 centuries. He held 130 catches, 22 in Tests. He was a popular captain and a much respected man.
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