INDIAN CRICKET TEAM TO TOUR AUSTRALIA
The Indian Board of Control has announced the following 17 players for the Indian cricket team to tour Australia—■
V. M. Merchant (captain), L. Amarnath (vice-captain), Mushtaq Ali, V. Mankad, V. S. Hazare, R. S. Mode, C. S. ‘Nayudu, Gul Mahomed, S. W._ Schoni (all the foregoing were members of the Indian team which toured England .in 1946), Amir Elshi, P. Sen, M. Ranghakar, G. Kishenchand, D. G. Fhadker, Fazal Mahmud, H. R. Adhikari, and J. K. Irani.
Elshi is a right-arm slow googly bowler. Phawkar is a fast bowler with fire in the early overs, and a useful bat. Rannhaker is an enterprising left-hand batsman. Adhikari and Kishenchand are batsmen and Fazal Mahmud is a medium-paced bowler. The average age of the team is 27. The oldest players are Elshi 40, Merchant and Amarnath each 36. jfhe youngest, Sen, is 18, Mahmud is '2l, and Phadkar 22.
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Grey River Argus, 22 March 1947, Page 7
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