Anandji Dossa

Who is Anandji Dossa?

Anandji Jamnadas Dossa is an Indian cricket statistician.

He represented his school and college in inter-school and inter-collegiate cricket while growing up in Bombay. In 1941, he was the 12th man for Hindus in the Bombay Pentangular and Bombay in the Ranji Trophy.

Dossa was associated with the All India Radio as cricket statistician from 1956-57 to 1972-73. He was the chairman of the Indian cricket board's statistical committee for a few years from 1973. When the Association of Indian Cricket Statisticians and Scorers was formed in the 1980s, he served as its first President. The association's yearly award for the best scorer and the C. C. I. library at the Brabourne Stadium are named after him.

His works include:

Statistics editor of 'The Indian Cricket Field Annual' from 1957/58 to 1964/65

Editor of Cricket Quarterly from 1975

Cricket ties India - Pakistan, 1978

India v Australia 1979

CCI & The Brabourne Stadium: 1937-1987