Kiran Ashar

Kiran Ashar, the former Mumbai wicketkeeper-batsman passed away on Saturday in a city hospital, less than a month short of his 70th birthday due to health complications. Ashar's exploits in inter-school cricket was Bradmanesque or like one report on his amazing run of scores in 1964-65 put it, it was Everton Weekes-like because, like the great West Indian in 1948, Ashar scored five consecutive centuries in the Harris Shield inter-school tournament. Yet, Ashar could figure in only five first-class games for Mumbai.