West Indies
Posted in Uncategorized on 01/14/2008 12:38 pm by admin
West Indies
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A little known man made his debut against England in the 1951-52 series against England in India. He was Subhas Gupte who at once arrested the pundits of cricket, who rated him an excellent find. Gupte was a slow leg spinner who flighted the ball and had an excellent disguised Google.
Subhas Gupte was born in 1929 and first played test cricket in 1951. His last series was against Ted Dexter's England team in 1961-62 and it was a travesty that he was left out of the Indian team's tour of the West Indies in 1962 for reasons other than cricket.Sir Gary Sobers who faced Gupte in the 1958-59 series at home in India believed that Gupte was the best leg spinner he had ever seen and rated him a few notches higher that Shane Warne. Indeed the late bowler in his prime was a wizard of the art of spin bowling.
Gupte will remain an enduring legend, particularly after his bowling feats against the West Indies during the 1953 tour. The West Indies team at that time boasted the famed 3 W's Walcott, Weeks and Worrell and it is a tribute to the little spin wizard that he tamed that West Indies batting machine and claimed 27 wickets in the series.
Gupte had many other records and one cannot forget the Kanpur test against the West Indies, when his 9 for 102 routed the Caribbean team which had the likes of Kanhai and Sobers in its ranks. He would have claimed all 10 but for a solitary wicket claimed by Ranjane. But Gupte did claim 10 wickets and had analysis of 10 for 78. He did this against the Pakistan Services team and Bahawalpur XI in 1954-55.
'Fergie' as he was popularly called was a state of art bowler and in all took 149 test wickets in only 36 test matches. This is a prodigious feat considering that the Indian team of those days had butter fingers and innumerable catches of his bowling were spilled
Such was his class and quality that Jim Laker the legendary off spinner rated him as the best of modern leg spinner. Rohan Kanhai revealed in his autobiography that he rated Gupte very highly and he considered mastering the ace spinner a feat in itself during his innings of 256 at the Eden Gardens in 1959. Gupte had a checkered career and David Frith in his book the 'The Slow Men' rated Gupte as the best spinner Indian ever produced.
Gupte fell in love with a West Indian girl and migrated to the West Indies. He breathed his last in 2002 in Trinidad.But India and the world will remember Subhas Gupte as the classical leg spinner who was in the opinion of many the best spinner India ever produced.
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