Remembering Ranji and Mankad

A trip to Jamnagar gives Dilip D'Souza of caravanmagazine.in an opportunity to relive the magnificence of two of the town's most famous cricketing sons.

It was not far from the Hanuman temple that we found Ranji’s statue and I became unexpectedly awash in cricket nostalgia: so much about this prince among cricketers that I had not thought about in years. But the statue annoyed me. Why remember him in gold-plated middle-age? Why not a statue of the younger and fitter Ranji doing what so bewitched cricketers and audiences and me, alike? Why not sculpt him playing the stroke he invented, a bit of silky legerdemain called the leg glance?

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