Vinoo Mankad is one of the famous personalities in the cricketing arena. Now, this post is just a discussion about this personality in detail. The major reason for which he is Dismissal, that has his name, Mankading. He is an opening batsmen and slow left arm orthodox bowler. He became famous by performing the act of mankading, which by braking the wicket at the non-striker end and while doing his bowling action and the non striker was well out of his reach.
He also have had the world record for the highest opening partnership of 413 runs with pankaj Roy, which stood out as a record for almost 52 years. He has received indian government award of Padma Bhushan. He also holds the record for playing in all the batting positions for a team from the batting positions of 1 to 11. Only two more fellow cricketers has this record. One is Syd Gregory from Australia and the other one is Wilfred Rhodes from England.
His sons are also cricket players. One is Ashok Mankad who played test cricket for India and another son Rahul Mankad played first class cricket for India.He has played 44 tests for India and made 2109 runs at an average of 31.47 including 5 centuries and a top score of 231. He also took 162 wickets at an average of 32.32 which included 8 five wicket hauls. He is one of the finest allrounders that India have produced and man or brain behind the way of dismissal of mankading.
He also have had the world record for the highest opening partnership of 413 runs with pankaj Roy, which stood out as a record for almost 52 years. He has received indian government award of Padma Bhushan. He also holds the record for playing in all the batting positions for a team from the batting positions of 1 to 11. Only two more fellow cricketers has this record. One is Syd Gregory from Australia and the other one is Wilfred Rhodes from England.
His sons are also cricket players. One is Ashok Mankad who played test cricket for India and another son Rahul Mankad played first class cricket for India.He has played 44 tests for India and made 2109 runs at an average of 31.47 including 5 centuries and a top score of 231. He also took 162 wickets at an average of 32.32 which included 8 five wicket hauls. He is one of the finest allrounders that India have produced and man or brain behind the way of dismissal of mankading.
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