Two cricketing personalities surprised me by handing me a copy of their bio-data before they could be interviewed. One was former India captain Polly Umrigar and the other, Anandji Dossa India’s best-loved cricket statistician who passed away on Monday in New York.

I don’t possess Umrigar’s pencil jottings. Maybe, I didn’t ask him for them, but I have preserved Dossa’s resume including the typed one. Doubtless, it has great value attached to it, but not greater value than what Dossa brought to Indian cricket through his contribution.