He was a relatively successful first-class player with an ability to play long innings.
He was selected in the national team for the tour of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where he impressed with a 194-run partnership with Sunil Gavaskar.
He was again selected in the 14-member squad for the West Indies tour of 1974–75 but was surprisingly left out of the playing eleven and was never considered thereafter.
[1] Bose was the head coach of Kolkata's Cricket Club of Dhakuria(CCD).
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