London: Maharaja Ranjitsinhji, the first Indian to play Test cricket for England, may have fathered an illegitimate son with his Cambridge University tutor’s daughter over a century ago, according to a media report published in UK.

Ranji, as he was affectionately known and after whom the Ranji Trophy has been named, was born in Nawanagar and went on to become its ruler as Maharaja Jam Sahib in 1907. According to ‘The Sunday Times’, he had an affair with his Cambridge University tutor’s daughter, which was hushed up to avert a scandal in Victorian England.