Rattan Chand Jaidka (23 November 1900 – 25 December 1985) played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire in 1927.
[2] Born in Nakodar, Punjab Province, Jaidka studied engineering in Delhi and went to work in Malaya.
[5] After completing his studies he took up a post as a lecturer at the Burmah Oil Company's engineering school in Rangoon, where he worked from 1930 to 1957, apart from a period during World War II when he taught at the Maclagan Engineering College in Lahore, where he coached the future Pakistan Test cricketer Fazal Mahmood.
He moved to Chandigarh, where was a member of the Punjab Cricket Association and encouraged the development of coaching.
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