India's oldest Test cricketer dies at 96
India, April 10 -- India's oldest living Test cricketer, CD Gopinath, died at the age of 96 on Thursday, marking the end of the last living link to the country's first-ever Test-winning team. Gopinath was the world's second-oldest living Test cricketer after Australian great Neil Harvey (97) and is survived by his wife, children and grandchildren. In the statistician's book, Gopinath's numbers will always remain modest - 8 Tests, that yielded 242 runs with one fifty. But, typically of him, Gopinath never felt bitter about a short career that started on a promising note with a 50 and 42 against England at the Brabourne in 1951. But Gopinath remained a significant figure in domestic cricket, scoring heavily and captaining Madras. He scored 4,...
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