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Polly Umrigar - Indian Players.
Polly Umrigar: The bulwark of Indian batting through the s and s
He did not play any further Tests in the series, but soon became a feature in the unofficial ‘Tests’ against the visiting Commonwealth sides.
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Against an attack comprising of Derek Shackleton, George Tribe, Bruce Dooland and Frank Worrell, Umrigar scored two hundreds in , 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-paced as India lo