IN REMEMBRANCE - INDIAN TEST CRICKETERS

🏏🏏 P. K. SEN (31 May 1926 – 27 Jan 1970) The first regular Test wicketkeeper and also the first Test cricketer from Bengal, Comilla (now in Bangladesh) born right-handed Probir Kumar "Khokan" Sen played 14 Tests for India...  Sen made his Test debut in January 1948 against Australia, at Melbourne. He played his last Test in December 1952 against Pakistan at Calcutta... Nothing exceptional to show with the bat in Tests, Sen scored 165 runs @11.78, 25 as his highest, but his acrobatic agility behind the stumps earned him 31 dismissals - 20 caught and 11 stumped... Sen's first class record (1943-44 to 1957-58) was better, scoring 2580 runs @23.24 from 82 games, 3 hundreds and 11 fifties with 168 as highest, 108 catches and 36 stumpings, 7 wickets including a hat trick... Sen has a few records to his credit. He was the only Indian wicket-keeper to have stumped Don Bradman, in a four-day match against South Australia in 1947–48. His purple patch was i...

🏏🏏 P. G. JOSHI (7 Oct 1926 – 8 Jan 1987) Baroda born Padmanabh Govind "Nana" Joshi was a right-handed wicket-keeper batsman who played for India between 1951 and 1960... Joshi arrived on the scene at a time when India had three or four wicket keepers more or less of the same class. Thus being in and out of the eleven, Joshi played just 12 Tests in a career which lasted for almost a decade... Joshi made his Test debut in November 1951 against England at Delhi, and played his last in December 1960 against Pakistan at Bombay.... In 12 Tests  Joshi scored 207 runs @10.89, just one half century 52* - in his last Test innings - as his highest, 18 catches and 9 stumpings... Representing Maharashtra from 1946/47 to 1964/65 Joshi played 78 first class matches scoring 1710 runs @16.93, the lone 100* as highest, 8 fifties, 120 catches and 61 stumpings... Joshi was brilliant in the first innings of his debut Test, but his errors in the second helped England save the...

🏏🏏 S. NYALCHAND (14 Sep 1919 - 4 Jan 1997) Shah Nyalchand was another cricketer who played just the debut Test for India. A left-arm seamer who excelled on matting surfaces, Nyalchand was an impressive performer in the domestic circuit... Dhrangadhra (Gujarat) born Nyalchand had a first class career spanning almost a quarter of a century. Beginning from the 1939/40 season representing Western India, Nyalchand went on to play for Gujarat and Saurashtra teams till the end of the  1963/64 season... None other than Sir Frank Worrell had called Nyalchand “the King of matting wickets.” Despite placid wickets of those days, and Indian fast bowlers being allrounders, the 5'7" Nyalchand excelled with his left-arm seam bowling in 57 games, 29 for Saurashtra. He finished with 235 wickets @22.57 with a five-wicket haul 15 times and a ten-wicket haul 6 times, his best being 7/32... Nyalchand's only Test was against Pakistan in October 1952, at Lucknow. Though unfortunate ...