12 April 2017: Exactly 100 years ago, was born Vinoo
Mankad. He is undoubtedly amongst the greatest all-rounders of the game. People
believe that Kapil Dev and Vinoo Mankad are the two greatest all-rounders from
India. SAGE joins the many cricket lovers n paying a tribute to this maestro.

Reminiscing about
Mankad yesterday, author Raghunath added, “I saw him first in January 1956 against New Zealand at Chennai when he
and Roy opened and put on 413 for the first wicket- a world record creating
opening stand. Mankad made 231 and I remember the sweeps and drives; I was 9
years old then. Some months later, September 1956 I saw him bowling against
Australia; I was still 9 plus. He had a round- arm action and was very
accurate; he took out Harvey with a faster ball, bowled him. I last saw him in
1958 taking 4 wickets against Gerry Alexander’s West Indians. He got Sobers
caught at slip. He could bowl for long spells tirelessly; he had an armer and a
faster one and moved with alacrity to catch of his own bowling, anticipating
brilliantly. For his hundreds against Lindwall and Miller in Australia, and
against Bedser and Trueman in England, I would rate him the finest spinning
all- rounder. An amazing professional who took on the establishment and
administrators like D'Mello and Vizzy. He would have been invaluable in modern
day limited overs cricket!”
Revisit the lanes of cricketing history with authors S Giridhar and V J Raghunath, throughh their book " Mid-wicket Tales".
Have never been ever interested in cricket as much, except for when there is a match between Pakistan and India. Although my whole family are great fans of cricket and watch almost all matches!!
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