Raman Subba Row CBE (29 January 1932 – 17 April 2024) was an English cricketer who played for the national team, Cambridge University, Surrey and Northamptonshire.
[1] Born in Streatham, Surrey, England on 29 January 1932,[1] to an Indian father Panguluri Venkata Subba Rao, of Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh and English mother, Doris Mildred Pinner,[2] Subba Row was educated at Whitgift School and Cambridge University.
A left-handed opening batsman and occasional leg-spin and googly bowler, Subba Row was a member of the powerful Cambridge side of the early 1950s and played a few games for Surrey before joining Northamptonshire.
Taking over as captain in 1958, he led the side for four seasons and achieved considerable success as a batsman, scoring the county's highest ever innings, 260 not out, in 1955 and then bettering it with 300 against Surrey, the County Champions, at the Oval in 1958, when he shared a record sixth wicket stand of 376 with Albert Lightfoot.
At the end of the 1961 season, he retired rather abruptly from first-class cricket at the age of 29, to go into the public relations business,[1] joining WS Crawfords advertising agency in Holborn.