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Sudhir Naik pays reverence to ‘pleasing’ Gopal Bose

Gopal Bose, 71, was a initial cricketer from Bengal to figure in an ODI — opposite England on a same tour. He scored 3757 runs in 78 first-class games with 8 hundreds and 17 fifties

Sudhir Naik pays reverence to 'pleasing' Gopal Bose

Sudhir Naik, a former India opener, paid abounding tributes to his former opening partner Gopal Bose, who upheld divided yesterday in Birmingham following a cardiac arrest. “Gopal and we batted together on several occasions on a 1974 debate of England and we became good friends. He was a appreciative batsman to watch and nonetheless he couldn’t be during his best opposite pace, he was really good while rebellious a overhanging ball,” Naik told mid-day yesterday.

Bose, 71, was a initial cricketer from Bengal to figure in an ODI — opposite England on a same tour. He scored 3757 runs in 78 first-class games with 8 hundreds and 17 fifties. His code of off-spin fetched him 72 wickets. “Apart from being an appealing batsman, Gopal was a consummate lady and as we speak, we remember a time when we non-stop a innings for a Board President’s XI opposite a West Indies during Jaipur in 1974,” remarked Naik.

Sudhir Naik
Sudhir Naik

PTI adds: Interestingly, Bose was a manager of a Virat Kohli-led India U-19 group that won a colts World Cup in Kuala Lumpur in 2008. After a inclusive 1973-74 season, during that he scored a large hundred for Rest of India in a Irani Cup, Bose was enclosed for India’s unaccepted debate of Sri Lanka, where he scored a hundred and common a 194-run opening mount with Sunil Gavaskar.

He was also picked in a patrol for a 1975 Test compare opposite a West Indies in Chennai when Gavaskar was harmed though a earlier preference cabinet motionless to foster Eknath Solkar as Farokh Engineer’s opening partner. Bose never got a call-up after that. However, he done a name for himself as one of a many reputable coaches in Bengal with pointy insight.

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