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- Updated: April 1, 2018
Among a assembly during a ‘The Lions of Mumbai Cricket’ duty organized by MIG Cricket Club on Saturday dusk to honour a city’s cricketing stalwarts
Former Mumbai cricketer Rusi Cooper during MIG CC on Saturday. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
Among a assembly during a ‘The Lions of Mumbai Cricket’ duty organized by MIG Cricket Club on Saturday dusk to honour a city’s cricketing stalwarts, was a special maestro who finished it to Bandra East from his South Mumbai chateau notwithstanding being 95 — Rusi Cooper.
After former Mumbai captains Milind Rege, Lalchand Rajput and Abhishek Nayar finished their eye-opening contention on city cricket (Rege called for all Mumbai cricketers to be given voting rights; Rajput felt a stream T20 mindset has not finished city cricket most good while Nayar wanted players to be given an event to sight during monsoons in other cities), compere Devendra Prabhudesai went down to Cooper, a oldest ex-player during a duty and asked him to remember a 1944-45 Ranji Trophy final between Bombay and Holkar.
The center sequence batsman, who also played for Middlesex, dumbfounded a entertainment by fixing Bombay’s batting sequence in that final and also rightly removed sum of a compare that Bombay clinched by 374 runs. He also remembered how CS Nayudu, a hermit of hostile captain CK, bowling some-more than 150 overs of leg-spin.
“This was an iconic game. It was a compare played in pre-independence India, a second World War was on and a Brabourne Stadium didn’t have a empty chair in any of a 6 days. The compare was played in a feverishness of Mar 1945. we can still remember a batting sequence of a team. We batted initial with KC Ibrahim and Madhav Mantri opening a innings, Rusi Modi, Vijay Merchant (captain), we came in fifth, afterwards came Dattu Phadkar, Uday Merchant, JB Khot, Baloo Palwankar, KK Tarapore and Madan Raiji.”
Cooper perceived rational applause. Also in a Holkar ranks was Denis Compton, a England batting good whom Cooper played with in a Middlesex group during a 1950 season.
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