His father's family were prominent in Sarodar (or Sadodar), a village in Nawanagar State on Gujarat's Kathiawar peninsula.
[citation needed] Indravijaysinhji made his first-class cricket debut at the age of 19, during the inaugural 1934–35 edition of the Ranji Trophy.
[1] Indravijaysinhji played two further matches for Western India in the following season of the Ranji Trophy, under the captaincy of the Ghulam Moinuddin Khan, Nawab KhanSaheb of Manavadar.
[1] A middle or lower-order batsman, Indravijaysinhji's first notable innings came during the final of the 1936–37 Ranji Trophy, in which Nawanagar defeated Bengal by 256 runs to win its only title.
Nine years after his previous first-class appearance, now aged 38, Indravijaysinhji played one final match for a Saurashtra team in the 1953–54 Ranji Trophy.