# Bimal Bose > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bimal_Bose > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bimal_Bose.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimal_Bose > Source revision: 1348893076 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) For the scientist, see [Bimal Kumar Bose](/source/Bimal_Kumar_Bose). **Bimal Krishna Bose** (16 June 1918 – 20 May 1996) was an Indian [cricketer](/source/Cricket) who played [first-class cricket](/source/First-class_cricket) for [Bihar](/source/Bihar_cricket_team) from 1940 to 1963, captaining the team from 1953–54 to 1957–58.[1] His elder brother was famous revolutionary [Benoy Basu](/source/Benoy_Basu).[2] ## Early career Bimal Bose made his first-class debut for Bihar in the 1940–41 season as a left-arm medium-paced opening bowler, and was seldom out of the team for the next 23 seasons. He batted low in the order, and made his highest score of 66 against [Bengal](/source/Bengal_cricket_team) in his second match. Bihar needed 264 to take the first-innings lead, which in a drawn match, as this one seemed likely to be, effectively counted as a victory. Bose went in at 149 for seven, and was last man out, caught on the boundary going for the six that would have taken Bihar into the lead.[3] In the 1948-49 [Ranji Trophy](/source/Ranji_Trophy) match against [Delhi](/source/Delhi_cricket_team) he took 7 for 42 in the first innings, then when Delhi needed only 78 in the second innings to win he and his captain [Shute Banerjee](/source/Shute_Banerjee) dismissed them in 21 overs for 48, Bose taking 4 for 25.[4] ## Captain of Bihar In his first match as captain in 1953–54 Bose took 3 for 71 and 6 for 65 in a drawn match against Bengal.[5] In his next match, in 1954–55, he led Bihar to victory over [Assam](/source/Assam_cricket_team), taking 6 for 16 and 6 for 31 at [Jorhat](/source/National_Sports_Council_of_Assam_Ground).[6] In the 1957–58 season he took 8 for 43 (the other two batsmen were run out) and 2 for 36 against Assam in an innings victory,[7] 4 for 32 and 7 for 31, bowling unchanged through both innings, in another innings victory over [Orissa](/source/Orissa_cricket_team),[8] and 5 for 87 off 46 overs in an innings loss to Bengal.[9] His 8 for 43 remained the best-ever innings figures for Bihar;[10] his overall record of 205 Ranji Trophy wickets is also the highest for Bihar.[1] He took 26 wickets at an average of 8.80 in that season.[11] ## Later career Bose's most successful season came two seasons later in 1959–60, when at the age of 41 he took 34 wickets at 14.29 in four matches. He began with 5 for 42 and 3 for 11 against Assam,[12] then took 6 for 42 and 5 for 137 to give Bihar their first-ever victory over Bengal at the twenty-third attempt, and take Bihar into the Ranji Trophy semi-finals for the first time.[13][14] They lost to [Mysore](/source/Karnataka_cricket_team) in the semi-final on Bihar's home ground, [Keenan Stadium](/source/Keenan_Stadium) in [Jamshedpur](/source/Jamshedpur), but Bose took 6 for 78 and 6 for 95, bowling 51 overs out of 108 in the second innings.[15] He played his last match in 1963–64. His other two brothers Bikash[16] and Biraj[17] also played for Bihar in the 1950s.[18] All three played in Bihar's two matches in 1950–51. ## References 1. ["Obituaries in 1996"](http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228764.html). *Wisden*. 6 December 2005. 1. Mukherjee, Abhishek (2015-11-26). ["Ranji Trophy 1948-49: Bihar defend record lowest 78 against Delhi"](https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/ranji-trophy-1948-49-bihar-defend-record-lowest-78-against-delhi-358698). *Cricket Country*. Retrieved 2023-12-08. 1. [Sujit Mukherjee](/source/Sujit_Mukherjee), *Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer*, Ravi Dayal, Delhi, 1996, p. 68. 1. ["Bihar v Delhi 1948-49"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18767.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015. 1. ["Bihar v Bengal 1953-54"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/20/20988.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015. 1. ["Assam v Bihar 1954-55"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/21/21370.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015. 1. ["Bihar v Assam 1957-58"](https://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1950S/1957-58/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/EAST/BIHAR_ASSAM_RJI-E_21-23DEC1957.html). ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 October 2023. 1. ["Orissa v Bihar 1957-58"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22784.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015. 1. ["Bihar v Bengal 1957-58"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22806.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015. 1. ["Most wickets in an innings for Bihar"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/India/Firstclass/Bihar/Bowling_Records/Best_Innings_Bowling_For.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015. 1. ["Bowling in each season by Bimal Bose"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6203/f_Bowling_by_Season.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015. 1. ["Bihar v Assam 1959-60"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23872.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015. 1. ["Bihar v Bengal 1959-60"](https://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1950S/1959-60/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/EAST/BIHAR_BENG_RJI-E_09-11JAN1960.html). ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 October 2023. 1. Mukherjee, p. 69. 1. ["Bihar v Mysore 1959-60"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23977.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015. 1. [Bikash Bose](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/38/38435/38435.html) at CricketArchive 1. [Biraj Bose](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/38/38436/38436.html) at CricketArchive 1. [Cricketing Brothers who have represented the State of Bihar](http://www.cricjharkhand.org/cricket/cricketing-brothers.php) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120424230033/http://www.cricjharkhand.org/cricket/cricketing-brothers.php) 24 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 11 January 2015. ## External links - [Bimal Bose](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6203/6203.html) at CricketArchive --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Bimal Bose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimal_Bose) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimal_Bose?action=history)). 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