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He did not play any further Tests in the series, but soon became a feature in the unofficial ‘Tests’ against the visiting Commonwealth sides.

The Indian cricketer Pahelam "Polly" Umrigar, who has died aged 80 from cancer, captained his country's national team in eight Test matches.

The Indian cricketer Pahelam "Polly" Umrigar, who has died aged 80 from cancer, captained his country's national team in eight Test matches.

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Polly Umrigar was born on March 28, in Sholapur, Maharashtra.

Born on March 28, in Solapur, Maharashtra, Polly Umrigar was a right-handed middle-order batsman who would roll his arms over for medium-pace or off-spin.

Polly Umrigar was one of the all-time greats of Indian cricket and a heroic figure from the late forties to the early sixties.

Against an attack comprising of Derek Shackleton, George Tribe, Bruce Dooland and Frank Worrell, Umrigar scored two hundreds in 1950-51, at Bombay and Madras, reaching his second century with two consecutive sixes off Frank Worrell.

He even toured England with a Commonwealth sidewith Headley, Worrell, Sonny Ramadhin, Vinoo Mankad, Vijay Hazare, Everton Weekes, George Tribe, Khan Mohammad as teammates.

As mentioned earlier, his initial Tests consisted of one supremely memorable hundred sandwiched between strings of failures, the second sequence in England particularly demoralising.

Umrigar returned to India, went back to the drawing board, training hard, trying to iron out the flaws in his technique.

Success arrived in the third Test against Pakistan, a fast-pa