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‘Parthiv deserves a top regard for heading by example’
- Updated: January 15, 2017
Walter D’Souza was on cloud 9 during his Khar chateau on Saturday after Gujarat won their lass Ranji Trophy title. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
Eighty nine-year-old Walter D’Souza’s beating of Mar 21, 1951 was good and truly obliterated on Saturday with Gujarat’s Ranji Trophy-winning uncover during Indore.
Sixty-six years ago, D’Souza witnessed better during a hands of CK Nayudu’s Holkar group in a same city, where Parthiv Patel Co claimed their lass Ranji pretension on Saturday.
Parthiv Patel
“I never suspicion I’d live to see this day,” D’Souza told mid-day. His voice was filled with emotion, though a disturb couldn’t be secluded for long. “I am grateful to a almighty to live to see this day. we always felt that Parthiv is a dirty man, a dauntless male and he could grasp this win for Gujarat. He has finished us proud,” pronounced D’Souza, who scored 50 and 77 in a 1950-51 final during a Yeshwant Club belligerent in Indore.
D’Souza and Ahmedabad-based Jyotindra Shodhan are a usually flourishing members of that Gujarat group that mislaid by 189 runs behind then.
D’Souza certified he was not really assured of Gujarat pulling it off during a start of a final day’s play on Saturday. “Let’s contend it was 50-50. Teams can get carried divided and remove wickets, so we was disturbed about that. But Parthiv was only brilliant. He hold a innings together and deserves a top regard for heading by example,” pronounced D’Souza, who knows what it takes to kick a group like Mumbai since even then, a city was a group to beat. “I am unapproachable that we played a large purpose in a feat over Bombay in a really same deteriorate of a Ranji triumph. we scored 91 opposite a good Bombay conflict and we also got dual wickets (JB Khot and Subhash Gupte),” he pronounced during his Khar residence.
D’Souza turns 90 on Friday. His early birthday benefaction has come in a form of a high indicate for a group he stretched each sinew for as a middle-order batsman and off-break bowler.