Devraj Govindraj

Devraj Devendraraj Govindraj (born 2 January 1947 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh) is a former fast bowler who played first-class cricket in India from 1964-65 to 1974-75. He toured the West Indies in 1970-71 and England in 1971, but did not play Test cricket.

Govindraj began his career with Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy in 1964-65, opening the bowling and batting in the tail. In 1966-67 his 59 batting at number nine helped State Bank of India win the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament for the first time.

He attended a training camp that was held to help select the Indian team to tour Australia and New Zealand in 1967-68, but Umesh Kulkarni and Ramakant Desai were selected ahead of him. In domestic cricket in India in 1967-68 he took 23 wickets at 26.95, without taking more than three wickets in an innings. He again helped State Bank of India win the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament, making his career top score of 72 at number eight after State Bank of India had been 123 for 6 in the first innings of the final. He played for an Indian XI against the touring International XI in February 1968, taking the wickets of Khalid Ibadulla (twice) and Ken Suttle.

He began the 1968-69 season with a short tour of Ceylon with State Bank of India. In the match against Ceylon Board President's Under-27s XI he took the best innings figures (6 for 38 in the second innings) and match figures (11 for 70) of his career in an innings victory. Two months later he took his best figures in the Ranji Trophy with 5 for 21 and 5 for 75 in an innings victory for Hyderabad over Andhra.