Pankaj Roy biography
Pankaj Roy, (born May 31, 1928, Calcutta (now Kolkata), India—died February 4, 2001, Kolkata), Indian cricket participant who was the opening batsman in 43 Test (worldwide) matches for India between 1951 and 1960, scoring 2,442 runs. He is presumably finest remembered for setting a world file of 413 runs with opening accomplice Vinoo Mankad towards New Zealand in 1956. (Their file stood till 2008.)
As a teen, Roy had a desire for soccer (soccer), however after sustaining a fracture throughout a match, he turned his consideration to cricket. He scored a century (100 runs in a single inning) in his home first-class debut in 1946 and continued to do nicely on the home stage. In 1951 he was chosen for the nationwide facet towards England and impressed drastically in his debut Test sequence, scoring his first worldwide century with 140 runs within the second Test in Bombay (now Mumbai) and topping the run aggregates for India with 387 runs within the sequence. He was extensively hailed as a brand new star for Indian cricket, however a disastrous tour of England in 1952, when he scored simply 54 runs within the sequence, led some observers to query his method and temperament.
Roy was arguably lucky to have been chosen for India’s tour of the West Indies in 1953, and he took the chance to salvage his popularity. He returned to his earlier stage of play towards the robust Caribbean facet, the spotlight being his innings of 85 and 150 within the fifth Test at Kingston. He additionally acquitted himself nicely within the dwelling sequence towards New Zealand in 1955–56 with two centuries, together with the career-high 173 runs he scored throughout his record-setting innings with Mankad.
In the final 5 years of his worldwide profession, Roy produced good scores intermittently however misplaced a few of his consistency. He didn't make a three-figure rating in his final 19 Tests, his finest being 99 runs towards Australia in Delhi in 1959. Roy performed his final Test towards Pakistan in Bombay in December 1960. However, he continued to play at first-class stage till the 1967–68 season.