Vinoo Mankad

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Vinoo Mankad

Vinoo Mankad (right) and Pankaj Roy returning to the pavilion after their world record setting opening partnership of 413 runs, a record that stood for 52 years. Madras, 11 January 1956.

Personal information

Full name

Mulvantrai Himmatlal Mankad

Born

12 April 1917
Jamnagar, Nawanagar State, Kathiawar Agency, Bombay Presidency, British India

Died

21 August 1978 (aged 61)
Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Nickname

Vinoo

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Slow left arm orthodox

Relations

Ashok Mankad (son) Atul Mankad (son)

International information

National side

India

Test debut (cap 30)

22 June 1946 v England

Last Test

11 February 1959 v West Indies

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1935–1936

1936–1942

1936–1946

1943–1944

1944–1951

1948–1949

1950–1951

1951–1956

1956–1962

Career statistics

Competition	Test	First-class
Matches	44	233
Runs scored	2,109	11,591
Batting average	31.47	34.70
100s/50s	5/6	26/52
Top score	231	231
Balls bowled	14,686	50,122
Wickets	162	782
Bowling average	32.32	24.53
5 wickets in innings	8	38
10 wickets in match	2	9
Best bowling	8/52	8/35
Catches/stumpings	33/–	190/–

Source: Cricinfo, 24 June 2009

Vinoo Mankad pronunciation (12 April 1917 – 21 August 1978), full name Mulvantrai Himmatlal Mankad, was an Indian cricketer who is best known for his world record setting opening partnership of 413 runs, with Pankaj Roy, in 1956, a record that stood for 52 years. An opening batsman and slow left arm orthodox bowler, he played in 44 Tests for India, and made 2109 runs at an average of 31.47 including five Test centuries with a top score of 231. He also took 162 wickets at the average of 32.32, including eight five-wicket hauls. He is one of the three cricketers to have batted in every position, from the first to the last, during his Test career.

His son Ashok Mankad also played Test Cricket for India. Rahul Mankad, another son, played first-class cricket.

Mankad's best performance was against England at Lord's in 1952. In the first innings he top-scored with 72. During England's first innings, he bowled 73 overs and took 5 wickets for 196 runs. In India's second innings in that Test match, he top-scored again with 184 runs out of India's total of 378. Though England won the game easily, Mankad's all-round performance salvaged India's pride in a series where they were heavily outmatched. Mankad was the first player in more than 30 years to score a 100 and take five wickets in the same Test and the first Indian to achieve this feat. As such, he is one of only three non-England 'away' players whose names appear on both batting and bowling honours boards at Lords. (The other two are Keith Miller and Sir Gary Sobers).

Also memorable was his role earlier in the same year against England in Madras. He took 8/52 in England's first innings and 4/53 in the second helping India beat England for the very first time in a Test match.

In 1956 he hit 231 against New Zealand at Chennai and together with Pankaj Roy established the world record opening partnership of 413 runs which stood for 52 years. His score was a Test record for India at the time and would remain so until it was broken in 1983 by Sunil Gavaskar.

Mankad caused controversy in 1947/48 on India's tour of Australia, when he ran out Bill Brown backing up in the second Test. In other words, he broke the wicket at the non-striker's end during his run-up while the batsman at that end was out of his ground. He had done the same thing to Brown in the game against an Australian XI earlier on the tour, but his running out of Brown infuriated the Australian media, and running someone out in this way is now referred to as "Mankading".^[1]

However, Don Bradman in his autobiography defended Mankad, saying:

For the life of me, I can't understand why [the press] questioned his sportsmanship. The laws of cricket make it quite clear that the nonstriker must keep within his ground until the ball has been delivered. If not, why is the provision there which enables the bowler to run him out? By backing up too far or too early, the nonstriker is very obviously gaining an unfair advantage.

While perfectly legal, some contend that by convention, a bowler should warn a batsman who persists in backing up before dismissing him in that fashion. Mankad himself warned Brown before dismissing him in this fashion.^[1] Courtney Walsh likewise received praise for warning rather than dismissing Saleem Jaffar, who was backing up during the 1987 World Cup.

The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1973.^[2]

References

1 2 Frindall, Bill (2009). Ask Bearders. BBC Books. pp. 131–132. ISBN 978-1-84607-880-4. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.

External links

Cricinfo profile

India Test cricket captains

1932–1933/34: Nayudu 1936: Vizianagaram 1946: Pataudi, Sr. 1947/48–1952/53: Amarnath 1951/52–1952/53: Hazare 1954/55; 1958/59: Mankad 1955/56; 1958/59: Ahmed 1955/56–1956/57; 1958/59: Umrigar 1958/59: Adhikari 1959: Gaekwad 1959: Roy 1959/60: Ramchand 1960/61–1961/62; 1961/62: Contractor 1961/62–1974/75: Pataudi, Jr. 1967/68: Borde 1970/71–1974: Wadekar 1974/75; 1979: Venkataraghavan 1975/76; 1978/79–1984/85: Gavaskar 1975/75–1978/79: Bedi 1979/80; 1979/80: Viswanath 1982/83–1986/87: Kapil Dev 1987/88–1988/89: Vengsarkar 1987/88: Shastri 1989/90: Srikkanth 1989/90–1998/99: Azhar 1996/97–1999/00: Tendulkar 2000/01–2005/06: Ganguly 2003/04; 2004/05; 2005/06–2007: Dravid 2005/06; 2009; 2010; 2012: Sehwag 2007–2008: Kumble 2008–2014: Dhoni 2014/15; 2015–: Kohli

Italics denote deputised captaincy

Test cricketers who achieved the 'All-rounder's Double' (1000 runs/100 wickets) to 1977

Australia	R Benaud 32 Tests A K Davidson 34 G Giffen 30 I W Johnson 45 R R Lindwall 38 K R Miller 33 M A Noble 27

England	T E Bailey 47 Tests A W Greig 37 R Illingworth 47 M W Tate 33 F J Titmus 40 W Rhodes 44

Other nationalities	V Mankad (India) 23 Tests Intikhab Alam (Pakistan) 41 Sarfraz Nawaz (Pakistan) 55 T L Goddard (South Africa) 36 G S Sobers (West Indies) 48

Australian first-class cricket season leading wicket-takers (1900–01 to 1949–50)

1900–01: Saunders/Travers 1901–02: Braund 1902–03: Saunders 1903–04: Rhodes 1904–05: Collins 1905–06: Garnsey 1906–07: Garnsey 1907–08: Crawford/Saunders 1908–09: O'Connor 1909–10: Saunders 1910–11: Whitty 1911–12: Foster 1912–13: Massie 1913–14: Kelleway 1914–15: Ironmonger 1915–16: – 1916–17: – 1917–18: – 1918–19: McDonald 1919–20: Hendry 1920–21: Mailey 1921–22: McDonald 1922–23: Mailey 1923–24: Hartkopf/Williams 1924–25: Tate 1925–26: Grimmett 1926–27: Williams 1927–28: Grimmett 1928–29: Grimmett 1929–30: Grimmett 1930–31: Grimmett 1931–32: Grimmett 1932–33: O'Reilly 1933–34: Grimmett 1934–35: Fleetwood-Smith 1935–36: Ward 1936–37: Fleetwood-Smith/Ward 1937–38: Fleetwood-Smith/O'Reilly 1938–39: Fleetwood-Smith 1939–40: Grimmett 1940–41: O'Reilly 1941–42: O'Reilly 1942–43: – 1943–44: – 1944–45: – 1945–46: Tribe 1946–47: Wright 1947–48: Mankad 1948–49: Johnson

Leading run-scorers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards Leading wicket-takers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards

Padma Bhushan awards

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

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