Janardan Navle
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat (RHB) | |
| Bowling type | n/a | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 2 | 65 |
| Runs scored | 42 | 1,976 |
| Batting average | 13.00 | 19.18 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/9 |
| Top score | 13 | 96 |
| Balls bowled | - | - |
| Wickets | - | - |
| Bowling average | - | - |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | - | 0 |
| Best bowling | - | - |
| Catches/stumpings | 1 | 100/36 |
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Test debut: 25 June 1932 |
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Janardan Gyanoba Navle pronunciation (pronounced Naav-lay) (born December 7, 1902, Fulgaon, Maharashtra, India - died September 7, 1979, Poona, now Pune) was an early Indian Test cricketer.
To Navle goes the credit of facing the first ball for India in Test cricket. He opened in both innings at Lord's in 1932 and also kept wickets. A small man, Wisden called him "a first-rate wicket-keeper, very quick in all that he did". He played for Indians against Arthur Gilligan's MCC team in 1926-27 and Jack Ryder's Australians nine years later. For many years he kept wickets for Hindus in the Bombay Quadrangular and Pentangular tournaments. He made his debut for Hindus at the age of 16.
In his later life he worked as a security guard in a sugar mill and lived in a humble two room flat in Poona. He had his schooling at the Bhave School in Poona.
