53 catches in 27 games.Best short leg fielder.Son of a Gardner

I Remember olden cricket. Great solkar

Absolutely brilliant fielding at the most difficult position in the field. Eknath Solkar was the best ever fielder - no helmets - can't imagine how he practiced to have such great reflexes and catching skills. Keep watching -

भारतीय क्रिकेट इतिहास मैं अच्छे खिलाड़ी के रूप मैं अलग अलग बॉलर बैट्समैन के रूप में ख्याति अर्जित करते हैं पर सोलकर जी अकेले हैं जो उत्कृष्ठ फील्डर के रूप मैं ख्याति मिली है शायद विश्व इतिहास में भी मेरी श्रद्धांजलि

Eknath solkar was most daring fielder of all time.

Eknath Solkar, besides opening the bowling and batting in the middle order took some unbelievable catches at forward short leg. Unfortunately, those days the telecast was not that clear, as is now. Some of his outstanding catches won test matches for India. That apart, the indian spinners of that era, owe a good number of their wickets to the great Eknath Solkar. Shorn of proper protective gear, he boldly stood as closely as possible to the batsmen and grabbed even half chances

@tirthankardasgupta78

9 ай бұрын

In fact short square leg should be renamed Solkar square leg

The second catch was mind blowing.

Came here after Sunil Gavaskar commentary in WTC

Interesting that Knott didn't wait for the umpire's decision and walked which you very rarely see as many bat/pad appeals are turned down. I'd like to think that Knott felt that such a fabulous catch should have it's reward.

@nc-pf3qm

Жыл бұрын

Boys!!!

Who is after sunil gavaskar commentary ?

Solkar, we really miss you.

Actually the catch of Alan Knott off Venkataraghavan was extraordinary as people who minutely analysed the entire sequence would have noticed. After the ball left bowler Venkataraghavan, Alan Knott was preparing to play forward defensive stroke. Solkar anticipated the stroke and moved forward diagonally sideways towards backward short-leg, thereby narrowing the angle as also distance between him and the point where ball was likely to land and took the catch further diving forward. Actually it would not have been a catch for any other fielder except that extraordinary and the only one Solkar.

@bijunaik2683

Жыл бұрын

The great Solkar always watched for the batsman's leg movement as he prepared to face the bowler and predicted his short. This is what he told Mr. Dwarkanath Sanzgiri who mentioned this in his column.

070) 1970s- THE GOLDEN PERIOD OF INDIAN SPIN SPIN QUARTET AND MASTERY OF SUNIL AND VISHY- PLAYERS MATCHED WITH TAMIL MOVIES *******//////***///////**/ 1)GAVASKAR- MUDHAL MARIYADHAI 2)CHAUHAN- ANJATHEY.. 3)ASHOK MANKAD- NALLA NERAM 4)VISHWANATH- KAI KODUTHTHA DEIVAM 5) BRIJESH PATEL- MANASUKKUL MATHTHAPPU 6) EKNATH SOLKAR- KAI RAASI 7) ABID ALI- NAALUM THERINTHAVAN 8) VENKAT RAGHAVAN- ETHIRIGAL JAKKIRATHAI 9) PRASSANNA- NENJAM MARAPPADHILLAI 10) BEDI- MANASELLAM 11) CHANDRASEKHAR- MAAYA VALAI 12) GUHA- NAANUM ORU THOZHILALI 13) AMBAR ROY- VEDI 14)GANDOTHRA- MINNALE 15)AJIT PAI- ORU NAAL ORU KANAVU 16)INDRAJEET SINHJI- ANDHA ORU NIMIDAM ***** SAMPATH***//

एकनाथ सोलकर great man of India..

Fielding on short leg that too without a helmet 🙏

Treat to watch

Learned friends, can anyone tell me who the commentators are?

solkar... the role model for worlds best fielders

@indiaone9485

4 жыл бұрын

I suppose even jhonty Rhodes got inspired by Solkar, !!! Solkar was many a times Fielding very ,very close,- in as if he giving shakehand with the batsman!!!!! Many catches he took right under batsman's nose!!!!?!?! where as Jhonty always fielded in point or mid-o region ,,any body to decide who is more fearless?????????

@sohambhandari7672

11 ай бұрын

Before him weren't any good fielders in world cricket

@sohambhandari7672

11 ай бұрын

@@indiaone9485 Jonty Rhodes role was quite different and he played when batsmen in odi used agressive mode of cricket imagine solkar riding close to an player like Gayle

Jonty Rhodes.... is the South African eknath solkar....

Rajdeep sardeshsi ke baad kon kon aaya hai please like "

Solkar we miss u

He was world "best close in fielder" during his time,also left arm medium pacer & useful tailander batsman.😂

@subhagatachattopadhyay5801

4 жыл бұрын

Eknath Solkar was a world class fielder especially in the short leg area.

@bharattank1115

4 жыл бұрын

@@subhagatachattopadhyay5801 , that's true ,many catches per match, u r welcome.👌🌹😂ram ram.

@vitthal9323

3 жыл бұрын

He was good batsman..yaar not lower order batsman

@bharattank1115

3 жыл бұрын

@@vitthal9323 , trust me yaar , before retirement may be he did "night watchman" job n scored aprox 90 to 100 n left cricket, he was tailander n useful batsman followed by bedi, Chandrasekhar, prasanna, venkat, other useless " tailender " can't support 1 to 6 batsman.😀 1975 old stuff, heard their commentary's n saw them on TV, very poor batting record, stastics,etc.😹ram ram.😂in those days Indian team were w/o " fastest fighter jets bowlers " like Rafael to day.😀👌 always 4 slow spin bowlers in team.😹

@bharattank1115

3 жыл бұрын

@Arshad Rana ,in those days Indian team was in very critical situation , w/o fast bowlers, 4 slow spinners in every matches, team w/o openers , gavasker w/o permanent opening partner played for many years changing with chetan chauhan, parthsarthi sharma, WK farooq engineer, gaiekwad, sidhu, srikant, etc, many. May be Solker played his last test as "night watchman", retired with very poor batting record .😹ram ram.