Former India opening batsman and Mumbai’s 1970-71 Ranji Trophy-winning captain Sudhir Naik passed away at a city hospital on Wednesday evening. He was 78. Naik represented the country in three Tests—the Edgbaston game of the 1974 tour of England and the Delhi and Kolkata games during the home series against Clive Lloyd’s West Indians in 1974-75. Naik hit the first boundary for India in ODI cricket—in the first match of the 1974 one-day series in England. On March 25, he was admitted to hospital after suffering a fall at his Dadar residence.