Crossword-Solution: RANJI 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Now he had that complete lack of satisfaction in his own performance which superficial people think to be modesty, though it springs instead from the sword-stiff extreme of pride; when he made his century in a school match he was galled by the knowledge that he was not as good a player as Ranji, and when he was head of the science side his pleasure was mitigated to nearly nothing by his sense that still he did not know as much about these things as Lord Kelvin.

For the wonder to me is, not that you cricketers write books (for all the world wants to read them), but that you do it so prodigiously well." "Oh," said he, "you mean Ranji! But he's a terror." "I was thinking of him, of course; but of others as well.

Stoddart's team were panting for a breath of fresh air with the thermometer at 100° in the shade, some mysterious Indian deity was perpetually blowing on Ranji with a thousand cooling zephyrs.

Ranji's most telling stroke, as every cricketer knows, is what is technically known as the "hook" stroke.

How hazardous this proceeding is may be gathered from the obvious fact that if the batsman fails to get his bat exactly in the proper place in exactly the proper fraction of a second, he will infallibly have to retire either with a fractured skull or "leg before wicket." [Illustration: RANJI FIELDING.] While the cricket scribes used to regard Ranjitsinhji's good fortune in escaping a violent end while playing this speciality of his as a supernatural gift, practical cricketers consider the stroke bad form.