IN REMEMBRANCE - INDIAN TEST CRICKETERS

🏏🏏 A. K. ROY (5 Jun 1945 - 19 Sep 1997) Of the three related Roys who have served India in the Test cricket arena, left-handed Ambar Khirid Roy is regarded in many quarters as the most talented strokeplayer Bengal has ever produced. Though his feet seldom seemed to move, Roy possessed the uncanny ability to caress the cherry with minimal effort, bisecting fielders with marksmanlike precision... It was said of Roy that he was almost a non-believer of net-practice, that he used to doze in the dressing-room, and that his teammates used to wake him up when it was his turn to be at the crease. Out in the middle he would duly enthrall the crowds with some breathtaking strokes and then, just as they expected him to make it big, he would play the most ridiculous of shots to get out. Back in the dressing room he would relax with a smoke, whatever may be the match situation. That's the way Ambar Roy performed, detached from all tensions... An aggregate of 91 ru

G. S. RAMCHAND 26 Jul 1927 - 8 Sep 2003. Gulabrai Sipahimalani Ramchand, the all-rounder from Sind and later Bombay, a colossus at the domestic level, somehow failed to realise his full potential in the Test arena. Though the first Indian to score a pair on Test debut (it was Fred Trueman's too) GS worked his way up meritoriously... Ramchand is credited with captaining India to her first ever Test victory over Australia, way back in December 1959 at Kanpur, the match popularly known as Jasu Patel's Test... A hard hitting batsman and a brave fielder, a commentator remarked about his bowling -  "looked every inch a fast bowler until he actually bowled"... Making a forgettable debut in June 1952 against England at Headingley, Ramchand played 33 Tests scoring 1180 runs, 2 hundreds and 5 fifties, a topscore of 109, 41 wickets and 20 catches. T he illustrious allrounder bid farewell to international cricket in January 196