Premangsu Mohan Chatterjee (10 August 1927 – 12 July 2011) was an Indian first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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er who represented Bengal as a left-arm medium bowler between 1946/47 and 1959/60, taking 134 first class wickets at 17.75. He was born at Cuttack

Cuttack

Cuttack is the former capital of the state of Orissa, India. It is the headquarters of Cuttack district and is located about 20 km to the north east of Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa. The name of the city is an anglicised form of Kataka that literally means The Fort, a reference to the...

, Orissa

Orissa

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 and died at Kolkata

Kolkata

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, West Bengal

West Bengal

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.

In January 1957, in a Ranji Trophy

Ranji Trophy

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 match between Assam and Bengal, Chatterjee took 10/20 for Bengal against Assam and took all 10 wickets in Assam's 1st innings.
This remains, as of 2011, the best innings return ever achieved in first-class cricket outside the UK

United Kingdom

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and the third best of all time.

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