Word: ranji
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Died. Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharajah Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, 60, famed oldtime cricketer, Chancellor of India's Chamber of Princes, First Indian delegate to the League of Nations; of heart disease; in Jamnagar, India. Popular throughout the Empire as "Ranji," he was considered one of the greatest batsmen of all time...
...Maharaja of Navangar (famed as "Ranji" the onetime cricket champion...
Popular hero (to English sport fans) of the Indian Round Table Conference last week (see p. 20) was popeyed, genial "Ranji" -thus nicknamed because his proper style is Lieut. Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jamsaheb of Navanagar...
...Ranji" was champion cricket batsman for All England, scoring 2,780 runs with an average of 59.91 -figures which Englishmen still ad mire. Today the "Ranji" cricket tradition is carried on by his nephew Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji who, as the Cricketers' Almanac for 1930 observes, "if not so famous as his renowned uncle ... is ... one of the great batsmen of the younger generation. . . . Like his uncle he possesses a remarkable eye and a pair of most supple wrists...