Representing a Cricket Club of India team on his first-class debut in a festival match in 1939, he scored a duck in the first innings and just a single run in the second.
[7] At the end of Raiji's playing career, he turned to writing, and wrote several important works on early Indian cricket.
[11] He celebrated his 100th birthday in January 2020, attended by Steve Waugh, Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar.
[12] On 7 March 2020, he became the oldest living first-class cricketer following the death of John Manners.
Raiji was only the second Indian first-class cricketer known to have lived to 100, after D. B. Deodhar who was aged 101 when he died in 1993.