Vasant Raiji, the former Bombay and Baroda batsman, has died aged 100. He had been India’s oldest living first-class cricketer. Sachin Tendulkar, Steve Waugh and Sunil Gavaskar had visited Raiji’s Mumbai home when he turned 100 on January 26.
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Raiji played nine first-class matches in a career that ran from 1939 to 1950, scoring 277 runs at an average of 23.08. He scored two half-centuries, both in the same Ranji Trophy game for Baroda against Maharashtra in December 1944.
After his playing career, Raiji turned his attention to chartered accountancy, but retained close links to cricket, writing a number of books on the sport including biographies of Ranjitsinhji, Duleepsinhji, CK Nayudu and Victor Trumper.
Source: ESPN Crickinfo