IN REMEMBRANCE - INDIAN TEST CRICKETERS

🏏🏏 M. K. MANTRI (1 Sep 1921 - 23 May 2014) India's oldest Test cricketer at the time of his demise, Nasik born Madhav Krishnaji Mantri, the right-handed wicket-keeper batsman of the Bombay team of the 1940s and 1950s, is regarded as one of the finest openers Indian cricket has had... The Brabourne Stadium debutant of December 1951, Mantri played just the four Tests in his career - 3 against England, and his final against Pakistan at Dacca in 1955. While the 67 Test runs, with 39 as highest, 8 catches and a stumping can be termed ordinary, it was his 4403 runs with 7 hundreds - a double included - and 26 fifties, 136 catches and 56 stumpings from 95 first class games that made him a class apart... Captaining Bombay to an emphatic 531 run victory over Holkar in the 1952 Ranji Trophy finals, with individual scores of 94 and 152, earned Mantri a place for the June 1952 England tour. As luck would have it, Mantri was part of the top-order collapse at Headi...