Salim Durani, the debonair India cricketer of the 1960s with a movie star looks, a puckish sense of humour, and a penchant for hitting monstrous sixes on demand, died on Sunday. He was 88. (More Cricket News)
His death was con🐻firmed by sources close to the famil✤y.
He had been living with his younger brother, Jahangir Durani, 🙈in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
Durani had undergone a proximal femoꦉral nail surgery after he 🅘broke his thigh bone in a fall in January this year.
The Kabul-born Durani, who packed a punch with his bat and was also a h♔andy left-arm orthodo🐈x bowler, played 29 Tests and was instrumental in India defeating England 2-0 in the historic five-match Test series in 1961-62, picking up eight and 10 wickets in the team's victories at Calcutta and Madras.
Salim Durani, known for his fine dressing style and swagger, scored just one century though he 🐠had seven fifties in the 50 innings he played for the country, scoring 1,202 runs.
A decade after the epic tr﷽iumph against England, he played a key role in helping꧑ India to victory against the West Indies in Port of Spain, dismissing both Clive Lloyd and Sir Garfield Sobers.
The star crickete💯r also dabbled in Bollywood, starring opposite renown🐻ed actor Praveen Babi in the movie Charitra in 1973.
