Former India batsman Ramesh Saxena dead

Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), Aug.17 (ANI): Former India batsman Ramesh Saxena has died of a brain haemorrhage, in Jamshedpur at the age of 66.

Saxena, who played one Test for India, in 1967, was serving as the secretary of the Bihar Jharkhand Cricket Association.

A teenage prodigy, Saxena began his first-class career with a century for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy at the age of just 16. He was a stalwart for Delhi for many years, and earned a call-up to the India side for the 1967 tour of England. He scored 238 runs on the tour, but got scores of 16 and 9 in the only Test he played, at Headingley.

He also toured Australia and New Zealand in 1967-68 but never played another Test.

According to the Cricinfo web site, he played 149 first-class matches, scoring 8155 runs with 17 centuries. (ANI)