Badami Satyaji Rao is an India

India

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n former Test cricket

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 umpire

Umpire (cricket)

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He was born in Bangalore

Bangalore

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. He was an umpire in first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 from 1956 to 1981. He umpired the final of the Ranji Trophy

Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides, equivalent to the County Championship in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia...

 the four times - 1963/4, 1966/7, 1970/1, 1975/6 - and also the finals of the Duleep Trophy

Duleep Trophy

The Duleep Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket competition played in India between teams representing geographical zones of India. The competition is named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji .-History:...

 four times - 1964/65, and three years running, 1971/2, 1972/3, and 1973/4.

He stood in 17 Test matches between 1960 and 1979, setting an Indian record subsequently equaled by Swaroop Kishen

Swaroop Kishen

Swaroop Kishen Reu was an Indian Test cricket umpire. His name is sometimes spelled "Swarup Kishan".He was born in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. He played cricket as a wicketkeeper batsman at Delhi University...

 in 1984 and then surpassed by VK Ramaswamy (26 matches between 1985 and 1999) and Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan

Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan

Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan ; is a former Indian cricketer. He played for Derbyshire in English county cricket from 1973 to 1975. He played Test cricket for the Indian cricket team, and later became an umpire on the elite International Cricket Council Test panel...

 (73 matches between 1993 and 2004). All of the Test matches he umpired were played in India.

He first stood as a Test umpire in the 3rd Test between India and Pakistan at Eden Gardens

Eden Gardens

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 in Calcutta in December 1960, with Santosh Ganguli. His last Test as an umpire was the 6th Test between India and West Indies at Modi Stadium in Kanpur in February 1979, with Ram Punjabi.