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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Bimal Bose
| image =
| caption =
| country = India
| fullname = Bimal Krishna Bose
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|6|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1996|5|20|1918|6|16}}
| death_place = [[Jamshedpur]], [[Bihar]], [[India]]
| batting = Left-handed
| bowling = Left-arm medium
| family =
| club1 = [[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]]
| year1 = 1940-41 to 1963-64
| club2 = [[East Zone cricket team|East Zone]]
| year2 = 1949-50 to 1960-61
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 45
| runs1 = 619
| bat avg1 = 12.38
| 100s/50s1 = 0/3
| top score1 = 66
| deliveries1 = 9466
| wickets1 = 209
| bowl avg1 = 18.26
| fivefor1 = 15
| tenfor1 = 6
| best bowling1 = 8/43
| catches/stumpings1= 14/–
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6203/6203.html Cricket Archive
| date = 11 January
| year = 2015
}}
'''Bimal Krishna Bose''' (16 June 1918 – 20 May 1996) played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]] from 1940 to 1963, captaining the team from 1953-54 to 1957-58.

==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 cricket team|Bengal]] 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.<ref>[[Sujit Mukherjee]], ''Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer'', Ravi Dayal, Delhi, 1996, p. 68.</ref>

In the 1948-49 [[Ranji Trophy]] match against [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]] 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]] dismissed them in 21 overs for 48, Bose taking 4 for 25.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18767.html| title = Bihar v Delhi 1948-49| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>

==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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/20/20988.html| title = Bihar v Bengal 1953-54| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref> In his next match, in 1954-55, he led Bihar to victory over [[Assam cricket team|Assam]], taking 6 for 16 and 6 for 31 at [[National Sports Council of Assam Ground|Jorhat]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/21/21370.html| title = Assam v Bihar 1954-55| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>

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,<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22766.html| title = Bihar v Assam 1957-58| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref> 4 for 32 and 7 for 31, bowling unchanged through both innings, in another innings victory over [[Orissa cricket team|Orissa]],<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22784.html| title = Orissa v Bihar 1957-58| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref> and 5 for 87 off 46 overs in an innings loss to Bengal.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22806.html| title = Bihar v Bengal 1957-58| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref> His 8 for 43 remained the best-ever innings figures for Bihar;<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/India/Firstclass/Bihar/Bowling_Records/Best_Innings_Bowling_For.html| title = Most wickets in an innings for Bihar| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref> his overall record of 205 Ranji Trophy wickets is also the highest for Bihar.<ref>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1997, p. 1399.</ref> He took 26 wickets at an average of 8.80 in that season.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6203/f_Bowling_by_Season.html| title = Bowling in each season by Bimal Bose| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref>

==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,<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23872.html| title = Bihar v Assam 1959-60| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23908.html| title = Bihar v Bengal 1959-60| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref><ref>Mukherjee, p. 69.</ref> They lost to [[Karnataka cricket team|Mysore]] in the semi-final on Bihar's home ground, [[Keenan Stadium]] in [[Jamshedpur]], but Bose took 6 for 78 and 6 for 95, bowling 51 overs out of 108 in the second innings.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23977.html| title = Bihar v Mysore 1959-60| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 25 January 2015}}</ref> He played his last match in 1963-64.

His brothers Bikash<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/38/38435/38435.html Bikash Bose] at Cricket Archive</ref> and Biraj<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/38/38436/38436.html Biraj Bose] at Cricket Archive</ref> also played for Bihar in the 1950s.<ref>[http://www.cricjharkhand.org/cricket/cricketing-brothers.php Cricketing Brothers who have represented the State of Bihar] Retrieved 11 January 2015.</ref> All three played in Bihar's two matches in 1950-51.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6203/6203.html Bimal Bose] at CricketArchive
* {{Cricinfo|id=26965}}

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