Talk:Ranjitsinhji

Last words

I would like some confirmation for this edit which mentions 'If I could only sleep ...' as his last words. I have seen it in a trivia book but from memory, Alan Ross's biography of Ranji states only that he repeated these words many times during his final illness, and not that they were his final words.

It is quite likely that one of Ranji's many biographies confirm it, but it would be good if we could find a proper source. Tintin (talk) 09:38, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Added fact tag to it. Tintin (talk) 09:10, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is the relevant section from Alan Ross' Ranji:The Prince of Cricketers (Chapter : The Last Journey) :

For five days, Ranji struggled. "If I could only sleep", he said time and again. Hypnotics, Prof. Thomas reported, were useless. Sleep would have been the deciding factor in his illness and nothing could procure it for him. The terrible cough continued day and night accompanied by increasing breathlessness.

(Snipped a paragraph about cousin Digvijaysinhji being sent for)

On the night of 1 April, Ranji's heart began to fail. He embraced in turn those members of his family that were present and at five o'clock in the morning of 2 April, he died. (Pavilion books edition, Paperback, 1989, p.226, ISBN 1-85145-223-0)

I am deleting the line now. The addition was made from an Indian IP address and I strongly suspect that his source is the trivia book mentioned above (it is far more popular here than any Ranji biography). It is a very interesting book but takes a few liberties with facts for the sake of good trivia. Tintin (talk) 13:16, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Could this article perhaps be simply named Ranjitsinhji or even Ranji? (Both are already redirects to this article). Does the "Kumar Shri" (or "KS") add much?

Secondly, shouldn't this article and Duleepsinhji (currently at Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji) be consistent? -- ALoan (Talk) 19:03, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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