Vijay Hazare

He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996, the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player.

[1] Hazare was born in Sangli, into Marathi Christian family,[2][3] in the then Bombay Presidency of British India in 1916, one of eight children of a school teacher.

A "shy, retiring" man (according to Wisden in 1952), it was widely thought that he was not a natural captain and that his batting suffered as a result.

His rival, Vijay Merchant said that the captaincy prevented Hazare from becoming India's finest batsman: "It was one of the tragedies of cricket."

On the Indian domestic circuit, Hazare played for the Maharashtra, Central India and Baroda teams.