| Chandrakant Patankar | |
| Fullname: | Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar |
| Birth Date: | 24 November 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Pen, British India (now in Maharashtra, India) |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Role: | Wicket-keeper |
| Heightft: | 5 |
| Heightinch: | 9 |
| Club1: | Bombay |
| Year1: | 1949–50 to 1965–66 |
| Club2: | Maharashtra |
| Year2: | 1966–67 |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | Tests |
| Matches1: | 1 |
| Runs1: | 14 |
| Bat Avg1: | 14.00 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 13 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 3/1 |
| Column2: | First-class |
| Matches2: | 26 |
| Runs2: | 503 |
| Bat Avg2: | 15.71 |
| 100S/50S2: | 1/0 |
| Top Score2: | 100 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 38/20 |
| International: | true |
| Onetest: | yes |
| Country: | India |
| Testcap: | 82 |
| Testdebutfor: | India |
| Testdebutagainst: | New Zealand |
| Testdebutdate: | 28 December |
| Testdebutyear: | 1955 |
| Lasttestdate: | 28 December |
| Lasttestfor: | India |
| Lasttestagainst: | New Zealand |
| Lasttestyear: | 1955 |
| Source: | https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/32220.html ESPNcricinfo |
| Date: | 20 October |
| Year: | 2021 |
Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar (born 24 November 1930) is an Indian former cricketer who played in one Test in 1955.[1]
Born in Pen in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, Patankar attended Bombay University, gaining an MSc.[2] He played first-class cricket for Bombay from 1950 to 1966, then had a season for Maharashtra in 1966–67.[1]
A wicket-keeper and lower-order right-handed batsman, Patankar replaced his Bombay wicketkeeping colleague Naren Tamhane, who was injured, for the fourth game of the five-match Test series against New Zealand in 1955–56, but lost his place when Tamhane replaced him for the final game of the series.[2] [3] He played in Bombay's Ranji Trophy-winning teams in 1960–61 and 1965–66, but never played an uninterrupted season, Tamhane being the senior Bombay wicket-keeper for most of that period.[4] In the Ranji Trophy semi-final against Madras in 1953–54 he made five stumpings in Bombay's 379-run victory, then lost his place to Tamhane for the final.[5] He usually batted in the tail without making many runs, but when he opened the batting for the Maharana of Mewar's XI against the Associated Cement Company in the 1964–65 Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament he not only scored his only first-class fifty but went on to score 100.[6]
Patankar worked for the Indian companies BEST, Killick Indus and Laxmi Vishnu.[2]