[3] Shatrusalyasinhji made his first-class debut in the 1958–59 season, playing for Saurashtra against Bombay, scoring 15 not out and a duck and taking the wicket of Arvind Apte.
[11] His batting yielded only 113 runs in four matches in 1964–65,[7] but he did take his best bowling figures, 4 for 101 against Baroda, in a Saurashtra team that also included two other members of the Jamnagar royal family, Kumar Indrajitsinhji and Chatrapalsinhji.
[15] During a three-day tour of Gujarat in April 2022, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Shatrusalyasinhji at his home.
[16] Shatrusalyasinhji married a member of the Nepalese royal family,[17] and succeeded to the title of Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar in February 1966 on the death of his father.
When the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution of India was passed in 1971, abolishing princely privy purses and entitlements, he became H H Jam Saheb Sri Shatrusalyasinhji.