Mumbai: Former Mumbai -based Pacer Abdul Ismail, who is known as ‘King of Swing Bowling’ in his heads, was a part of the cricketers ‘Golden Generation’, who won the Ranji Trophy title in 15 consecutive sessions in the 60s and 70s, died on Friday at 79 years of age due to cardiac arrest. The son of a taxi driver, Ismail, who was born in 1945, was a resident of Oshwar. He took 244 wickets in 75 first -class games at a great average of 18.04. Although he did not play for the national team, his son Asif went to play Davis Cup for India.“His contribution to Mumbai cricket and famous Shivaji Park Gymkhana was amazing,” former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar told TOI. India’s 1983 World Cup winning team, Sandeep Patil, mourned the fact that three of the famous Shivaji Park Gymkhana Stalwarts-East Mumbai captain Milind Reege, Domestic left-handed spin legend legend Shivkar and Ismail have passed away. Reege died on 19 February, while Shivalkar ended on 3 March.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!“It’s very sad that the golden trio of Mumbai Cricket – Abdul Ismail, Paddy Shivalkar and Milind Rege has passed away in such a short time – within the last two months period. I have started my career with these three and I remember that in my first match (for Mumbai).According to Old-Timers, Ismail came close to India after acting in 1970-71 after acting in a thrilling 48-run victory of Mumbai, which was taking seven wickets for 58 runs for 41 runs in the final of the Ranji Trophy against Maharashtra at Brabourne Stadium at India’s Cricket Club. “You talk about all those great swing bowlers -bb Massey, Jimmy Anderson, Manoj Prabhakar, Balvinder Singh Sandhu. Abdul Ismail was, I think all those people, “Patil praised.
During childhood, Ismail had no means of playing tennis-ball cricket, but looking at his passion, a Maharashtrian Kerr family provided him with everything so that he could play at Hasanbagh Ground in Majgaon. “What am I today because of the Kakar family. They really took care of me. We had no money. My father was the only earning member and he used to get angry to see me. Every day I used to go to banks and offices and begging for a job, ”Ismail in January 2013 told the experienced journalist Makarand Weingankar, who wrote a feature on them for the ‘Bombay Boys’ series for TOI. Speaking of his action, Ismail recalled, “I was at Ruia College for a year. When our coach Mohini Amladi first saw me, he asked me to fix my action in 8 days, but I could not change anything right now. They allowed me to bowl with the same action.”In that article, former India batsman Brijesh Patel recalled, “Ismail was a very good bowler, misleading with his strange action. With both the swings, he played the batsmen. The balls used balls were poor in those days and the ball would lose its glow, but Abdul will be on you all the time. He should have played for India.”
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In 1974, when Karnataka ended the streak of Bombay in a row in a row in the semi -finals at Bangalore’s Chinnaswamy Stadium, it was an umpiring decision that included Ismail that hurt him. After being selected to bat, Karnataka lost Vijay Kumar for a cute outwinger from Ismail with the first ball, which he edited Sunil Gavaskar in the first slip. The Karnataka 2 will be near 0 when Ismail trapped the local hero Gundappa Vishwanath Plumb in front of an in-swinger, but was denied by the umpire. Vishwanath scored 162 and tore Bombay attack in Brijesh Patel (105) company. Eventually, chasing 385 from Bombay, Karnataka lost the match.It was only Ismail’s wretched fate that both cricketers were denied the opportunity to play for India.
