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Birthday special: Today is the birthday of former Indian cricketer Veenu Mankad. He was born on 12 April 1917. The full name of Veenu Mankad is Mulwantrai Himmatlal Mankad. Veenu Mankad breathed his last in Mumbai on 21 August 1978 at the age of 61. He was one of the great all -rounders of India. During that time he achieved great success. Mankad is the first player to start batting in a match of that era and then throw the first over in the same match.
Batting from number 1 to number 11 ..
Veenu Mankad was the first player to bat from number 1 to number 11. He first scored a century in a single match and then was also dismissed for zero in the same match. Veenu Mankad has completed 1000 runs in 23 Tests and has also taken 100 wickets. He was the first player to do so.
Veenu Mankad debut against England
Veenu Mankad made her debut in Test cricket on 22 June 1946 during the tour of England at the age of 29. The tour forced him to focus on his talent. India played 29 matches in this four -month tour. In which Veenu Mankad took 129 wickets. He also scored more than 1000 runs.
Vinu Mankad’s career
Veenu Mankad has played a total of 44 Test matches for India, scoring 2109 runs at an average of 31.47. He has also taken 162 wickets. Veenu Mankad became the first batsman to score two double centuries in the same series. He has five centuries and six half -centuries in Test matches. Talking about bowling, he has taken five wickets in the innings 8 times. Veenu Mankad has taken 782 wickets in first class cricket.
How did the name of manciding come?
After the Indian team’s tour of Australia in 1947-48, Amarnath had said that the Australian team would have scored 1000 runs if there were no veinu. Mankad was engulfed in controversies during this tour. More information about this is that in the second Test he had run out Australia’s Bill Brown. It was not an ordinary run out. When Veenu was bowling, brown was running to take runs before the ball was thrown. Initially, Veenu warned him, but when he did not agree, he was run out before throwing the ball. Since then, this type of runout was named Mancading.
