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Dhirendranath Mondal

Indian cricketer (1929-2004)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ16016227 ↗
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Dhirendranath Mondal (17 July 1929 – 9 September 2004) was an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Bengal. He was born in Calcutta and died in India.

Mondal made a single first-class appearance for the team, during the 1955–96 Ranji Trophy competition, against Bihar. From the opening order, he scored a single run in the first innings and 11 not out in the second, as Bengal ran out nine-wicket victors.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dhirendranath Mondal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.