Sir Gajapatairaj Vijaya Ananda

I love this one. Courtesy: cricinfo

1905
One of the worst Test cricketers of all time was born – with a drawerful of silver spoons in his mouth. When he captained India on their disastrous 1936 tour of England, he was knighted, and so became Sir Gajapatairaj Vijaya Ananda, the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram. Vijaya means victory, Ananda happiness, but there was precious little of either on that trip, even though India sent a strong team. Vizzy sent the great Lala Amarnath home, ended the Test careers of class acts like CK Nayudu and Wazir Ali, and ordered one of his openers to run the other out in a Test. He didn’t: they both scored hundreds in a big stand – but India lost the series easily. All because of Viz, a comic giant.