Former Mumbai cricket captain, Test batsman and sheriff of Mumbai, Madhav Apte passed away this morning, a few days shy of his 87th birthday which he would have celebrated on October 5. Apte played seven Tests for India in the early 1950s which included a highly successful West Indies tour in 1953 when he was part of the first Indian Test side to tour the Caribbean (under Vijay Hazare). He scored 460 runs in the five-Test series and never played Test cricket again.

That he didn't play longer for his country remains one of the biggest mysteries in Indian cricket. His late brother Arvind Apte also played for India. Continuing his highly successful first-class cricket journey for Mumbai which ended in the late 1960s, Apte also made a name for himself as an industrialist, who never missed out on a chance to play the Kanga League in Mumbai for his club Jolly Cricketers. Apte played the Kanga League ever since its inception in 1948 to 2002.