He was an all-rounder, who batted well under pressure and bowled relentlessly on South Asian surfaces.
At Old Trafford the last wicket partnership of Dattaram Hindlekar and Sohoni hung around for 13 minutes to avoid a defeat.
[2] From 108 First-Class matches that spanned close to three decades, Sohoni scored 4,307 runs at 28.17 with 8 hundreds.
He scored 655 runs in the Ranji season, a new record, at an average of 131 and 808 in all first class matches with five hundreds.
Sohoni "was tall, fair skinned and light eyed" with "film star looks".