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{{short description|Indian cricketer}}
{{for|the Indian cricket coach|Keki Tarapore (coach)}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Keki Tarapore
| image =
| caption =
| full_name = Keki Khurshedji Tarapore
| birth_date = {{birth date|1910|12|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Bombay]], [[British India]] (now in [[Maharashtra]], [[India]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|1986|06|15|1910|12|17|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Pune]], Maharashtra, India
| batting = Right-hand bat
| bowling = Slow left-arm orthodox
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 2
| bat avg1 = 2.00
| 100s/50s1 = -/-
| top score1 = 2
| deliveries1 = 114
| wickets1 = -
| bowl avg1 = -
| fivefor1 = -
| tenfor1 = -
| best bowling1 = -
| catches/stumpings1= -/-
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2 = 40
| runs2 = 441
| bat avg2 = 11.30
| 100s/50s2 = -/-
| top score2 = 42
| deliveries2 = 10847
| wickets2 = 148
| bowl avg2 = 28.77
| fivefor2 = 5
| tenfor2 = -
| best bowling2 = 8/91
| catches/stumpings2= 16/-
| international = true
| country = India
| onetest = yes
| testdebutfor = India
| testcap = 46
| testdebutagainst = West Indies
| testdebutdate = 10 November
| testdebutyear = 1948
| lasttestdate = 10 November
| lasttestfor = India
| lasttestagainst = West Indies
| lasttestyear = 1948
| source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/35313.html
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'''Keki Khurshedji Tarapore''' {{audio|Keki_Tarapore.ogg|pronunciation}} (17 December 1910, in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] – 15 June 1986, in [[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]]) was an Indian [[cricket]]er who played in one [[Test cricket|Test]] in 1948.

Tarapore studied at Harda New High School and Elphinstone College, Bombay and captained both. He completed a degree in B.A. Started his [[first class cricket|first class]] career in 1937 for Parsees and [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]. A left arm spinner, he was noted for his accuracy. He was reputed to be able to keep even [[C. K. Nayudu]] quiet.<ref name=IC/>

Tarapore played as the understudy to [[Vinoo Mankad]], the first of the three or four such left arm spinners, against [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] in 1948-49. His short international career was thus described by [[Sujit Mukherjee]]:

:''The earliest experiment – a hapless guinea-pig – was greyed Keki Tarapore who was thrust into whirling West Indian blades in the [[Feroz Shah Kotla|Delhi]] Test of 1948. Only three wickets fell to Indian bowlers on each of the first two days and Tarapore was conspicuously innocent of them all; so the mammoth crowd diverted itself by tormenting the poor man who at thirty eight (his first class career dated back to the (first) [[Bombay Pentangular|Pentangular]]), was not the most agile man in the field.''<ref>Sujit Mukherjee, Playing for India, Orient Longman (1988)</ref>

While fielding at deep extra cover on the second day in this match, Tarapore injured his fingers while trying to stop a four hit by [[Robert Christiani]] off [[Vinoo Mankad]]. He had to leave the field, and when he came back, the crowd barracked him every time he touched the ball.<ref>Indian Express, 12 November 1948</ref>

Four months after his only Test, Tarapore played his last first class match - the Ranji final between [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]] and [[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]] - where he bowled 99 overs.

Tarapore later went into cricket administration. He managed the Indian teams to England in 1967 and West Indies in 1970-71. He served as the secretary of [[Cricket Club of India]] from 1954 to 1982. [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] elected him as an honorary member in 1974.<ref name=IC/>

[[Kapil Dev]] credited Tarapore with inspiring him with a remark when he was a teenager attending an under-19 coaching camp. When Kapil complained that the two [[chapati]]s given to him for lunch was insufficient as he was a fast bowler, Tarapore laughed at him and said that there were no fast bowlers in India. After he became a successful Test cricketer, Kapil sought Tarapore out at a function for giving him "a goal in life by almost challenging me to bowl fast".<ref>[https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Democracy_s_XI/FK9oDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=kapil+tarapore&pg=PA130&printsec=frontcover [[Rajdeep Sardesai]], ''Democracy's XI'', p.130]</ref><ref>[https://scroll.in/field/890880/the-making-of-a-great-allrounder-tracing-kapil-devs-early-days-and-his-impact-on-indian-cricket Ashish Magotra, ''The making of an all-rounder'', Scroll, 26 August 2018]</ref>

Tarapore died in the Ruby Nursing Home in Pune after being knocked down by a [[moped]].<ref name=IC>''Obituaries'', [[Indian Cricket (annual)|Indian Cricket 1986]], pp 686-687</ref><ref>Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Who's who of Test cricketers (1986)</ref>

==Notes==
*There are two Keki Tarapores in Indian cricket. The [[Keki Tarapore (coach)|other Tarapore]] (1922–2001) was better known as a coach. He was based in [[Bangalore]] and mentored many [[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]] juniors some of whom went on to play for India.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Cricinfo|id=35313}}

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