The Long lived T20 player- Farokh Engineer

His active international career started in 1961 and continued to 1975, and he was India's first-choice wicket-keeper for most of that period, keeping wicket for the spin quartet of Bedi, Prasanna, Chandrasekhar and Venkataraghavan..


He was also a highly useful, stylish and very aggressive batsman, scoring two Test centuries.

He was the wicketkeeper for the "Rest of the World" team that played matches against England in 1970 and against Australia in 1971-72.

He played for Lancashire in the match against Derbyshire at Park Road, Buxton in June 1975 in which play was famously stopped due to snow.

Following in the footsteps of Keith Miller and Denis Compton, Engineer was a model for Brylcreem.

He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1973.

He came to be known as Rooky in England. Fred Trueman gave me the nickname.

Geoff Boycott once said to him, "You have more talent than me, but because of my temperament, I have made more runs." I replied, "But which of us two do people come to watch?"