Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Born at Bombay on 1st April, 1941.
Played 37 tests scoring 2113 runs at an average of 31.07. He scored one hundred (143) against New Zealand at Wellington in 1968. An outstanding slip-fielder, he took 46 catches.
A stylish left-handed bat, he was an intellectual cricketer. Not surprisingly, he retired as the Executive Director of State Bank of India recently.
Wadekar took over the India captaincy from Pataudi (Jr.) on the 1970-71 tour of the West Indies and won the series 1-0. He then led India to a series win in England, with a 4-wicket win in the third test at the Oval. At home, in the 1972-3 series against England, he again led India to a series win after England had won the first test at Delhi. After a disastrous tour of Ol' Blighty in 1974, popularly known as the 'Summer of 42', he announced his retirement from test cricket.
last updated on: 5/14/2021
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Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
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Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.