Figuring out birthday boy Dilip Vengsarkar as he turns 65
Updated On: 17 April, 2021 09:48 AM IST | Mumbai | Rohan Koli
As former India and Mumbai batting stalwart turns 65 today, we bring you some statistical facts of his 116-Test career in which he scored 6,868 runs and 17 centuries.
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Former Indian cricketer Dilip Vengsarkar poses with his wife Manali during IPL 2016. Picture/ AFP
Dilip Vengsarkar scored his first 50 in Test cricket after 19 innings - 78 against Australia in the second innings of the fifth and final Test at Adelaide in 1977-78. However, he had scores of 48, 49, 48 and 44 earlier in the series.
He scored his first Test century after 29 innings - an unbeaten 157 against the West Indies at Kolkata in 1978-79. He got a pair in the next Test at Madras but carved a hundred in the following Test at New Delhi.
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