1. Budhi Kunderan played as a wicket keeper for the most of his career, and was an exciting but unorthodox right-handed batsman who competed for international selection with contemporary Farokh Engineer.
15 Facts About Budhi Kunderan
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Joshi and Tamhane had already been tried when Kunderan got his chance in the third Test.
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Budhi Kunderan got out hit wicket on his first appearance while attempting to pull Ian Meckiff but scored 71 and 33 in his next Test.
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Budhi Kunderan had already played three Test matches when he made his Ranji Trophy debut in 1960 and scored 205 for Railways against Jammu-Kashmir.
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Budhi Kunderan scored his second first-class hundred later in the year against the same opponents in a match that Railways won without losing a wicket.
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Opening the innings, Budhi Kunderan hit 192 with 31 fours, 170 of which came on the first day of the match.
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Budhi Kunderan scored another hundred at Delhi and finished with an aggregate of 525 runs in the series.
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Engineer was then recalled for the New Zealand series that followed while Budhi Kunderan played as an opening batsman in the place of injured Dilip Sardesai.
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In 1965, Budhi Kunderan left his job in the Railways and appeared for Mysore and the South Zone.
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One Test later, Budhi Kunderan again found himself out of the team.
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Budhi Kunderan played purely as a batsman in the second and third Tests of the series.
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Budhi Kunderan opened both batting and bowling at Birmingham where India played four spinners.
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Budhi Kunderan served as a professional in the Lancashire league and then with Drumpellier in the Western Union in Scotland.
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Budhi Kunderan lived in Scotland from the turn of the 1970s.
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Budhi Kunderan died from lung cancer at the age of 66.