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{{Short description|Indian cricketer (1922–2010)}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Madan Raiji
| image =
| caption =
| fullname = Madan Naisadrai Raiji
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|4|7|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Vadodara|Baroda]], [[Gujarat]], [[British India|India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2010|3|29|1922|4|7|df=yes}}
| death_place =
| family = [[Vasant Raiji]] (brother)
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Leg-spin
| club1 = [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1941/42–1948/49}}
| club2 = [[Hindus cricket team|Hindus]]
| year2 = 1941/42
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 34
| runs1 = 1131
| bat avg1 = 35.34
| 100s/50s1 = 2/6
| top score1 = 170
| deliveries1 = 5939
| wickets1 = 89
| bowl avg1 = 33.44
| fivefor1 = 4
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 6/40
| catches/stumpings1= 36/–
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/40/40471/40471.html Cricket Archive
| date = 6 August
| year = 2022
}}
'''Madan Naisadrai Raiji''' (7 April 1922 – 29 March 2010) was an Indian [[cricket]]er who played [[first-class cricket]], mostly for [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]], from 1941 to 1950.

Raiji was a leg-spin bowler and batsman who batted at various positions in the order. In his first first-class season, aged 19, he took 5 for 54 in the second innings when the [[Hindus cricket team|Hindus]] beat the [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]] in the final of the [[Bombay Pentangular]] in December 1941.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1941-42/IND_LOCAL/BOM-PENT/HINDUS_PARSEES_23-26DEC1941.html| title = Hindus v Parsees 1941-42| publisher = Cricinfo| access-date =6 August 2022}}</ref> He took his best first-class figures in 1946–47, when he took 6 for 40, as well as making 59, the highest score of the match, during the Bombay Festival Tournament.<ref>{{cite web | url-access=subscription |url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17885.html| title = Dr CR Pereira's XI v Sir J Kay's XI 1946-47| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date =6 August 2022}}</ref>

His best season was 1947–48, when in six matches he took 26 wickets at an average of 24.30 and made 466 runs at an average of 51.77,<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/madan-raiji-33479| title = Madan Raiji| publisher = Cricinfo| access-date =6 August 2022}}</ref> including his highest score of 170 in the [[Ranji Trophy]] semi-final against [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]], when he also took five wickets in Bombay's innings victory.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1947-48/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/BOM_HYD_RJI-SEMI2_06-09MAR1948.html| title = Bombay v Hyderabad 1947-48| publisher = Cricinfo| access-date =6 August 2022}}</ref> Earlier in the season he had scored 130 in 145 minutes and taken 3 for 58 and 5 for 95 in Bombay's innings victory over [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]].<ref>{{cite web | url-access=subscription |url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18327.html| title = Bombay v Maharashtra 1947-48| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref>

Raiji took part in the highest-scoring first-class match of all time, the Ranji Trophy semi-final between Bombay and Maharashtra in 1948–49. Of the 2376 runs in the match, which Bombay won, he made 27 and 75 batting at number nine, and took no wickets for 138 runs.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1948-49/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/MAHA_BOM_RJI-SEMI1_05-09MAR1949.html| title = Maharashtra v Bombay 1948-49| publisher = Cricinfo| access-date =6 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.100mbsports.com/on-this-day-the-first-class-match-with-the-most-aggregate-runs-ends-eng/| title = On this day: The first-class match with the most aggregate runs ends| publisher = 100MB| access-date =6 August 2022}}</ref>

Raiji's older brother [[Vasant Raiji|Vasant]] was also a first-class cricketer, before becoming a cricket writer and centenarian. The brothers made their first-class debuts in the same match in the Ranji Trophy in November 1941.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ali |first1=Qaiser Mohammad |title=World’s Oldest First-Class Cricketer Vasant Raiji, Aged 100, Passes Away In Mumbai |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/sports-news-worlds-oldest-first-class-cricketer-vasant-raiji-aged-100-passes-away-in-mumbai/354676 |access-date=6 August 2022 |work=Outlook India |date=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bombay v Western India 1941-42 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1941-42/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/BOM_W-IND_RJI_08-10NOV1941.html |website=Cricinfo |access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cricinfo|id=33479}}

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[[Category:1922 births]]
[[Category:2010 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Vadodara]]
[[Category:Hindus cricketers]]
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