(Cricket News) Dattajirao Gaekwad, who was the captain of the 1959 England tour and the oldest living Test cricket player in the nation at the time of his death, passed away on Tuesday morning at a hospital in Baroda due to age-related ailments.

Gaekwad, who also had a son named Anshuman who represented India, played 11 Test matches between 1952 and 1961 and was a right-hand batsman who finished with 350 Test runs at an average of 18.42. His highest score of 52 came in 1959 against the West Indies in New Delhi.

Gaekwad made his debut under Vijay Hazare’s captaincy at Leeds in 1952 during India’s first tour of England after independence. He started his India career as an opener but settled into the middle order, with limited appearances in his ten-year international career.

Gaekwad’s final appearance came against Pakistan at home in 1961. He was known for his sound defense and his drives, but he also made a mark as a versatile fielder.

But in the Ranji Trophy, where he played for Baroda from 1947 to 1961, Gaekwad was a rock for the team. In all, he scored 5788 runs (36.40) in first-class cricket, and he made 17 hundred, including a career-high 249 not out against Maharashtra in 1959–60, one of his three double hundreds.

Baroda also won the Ranji Trophy in the 1957–58 season, defeating Services in the final, under his captaincy. In 2016, Gaekwad became the oldest living Test cricketer in India following the passing of former batter Deepak Shodhan, who was 87 years old. The oldest living Test cricketer in India at the moment is Chingleput Gopinath, a Madras cricketer, who is 93 years and 349 days old.

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