Rahul Mankad endured the tough world of Mumbai cricket
Updated On: 31 March, 2022 09:23 AM IST | Mumbai | Clayton Murzello
Rahul and Ashok played in the same Bombay team in the 1970s and 1980s. In inter-office cricket, they played for Nirlon and Mafatlal respectively and there was no love lost between the brothers on the field of play
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Former Mumbai player Rahul Mankad during a domestic match
Rahul, the third and youngest son of great cricket all-rounder Vinoo Mankad, passed away in London on Wednesday morning. He was 66. Rahul represented Mumbai in first-class cricket as an attractive middle-order batsman from 1975-76 to 1984-85.
Only a few weeks ago, he had the satisfaction of seeing cricket’s law-makers remove the act of running out a batsman for backing up too far, from the unfair segment of the laws. Rahul, nicknamed Jigga, despised the word ‘Mankaded’ and never tired from stressing that his late father committed no cricketing crime when he ran out Australia’s Bill Brown during India’s tour of Australia in 1947-48.
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