I refer to the 4th test India vs Australia 1969-70 series at Calcutta. I was a boy of 13 viewing from CAB Annual members stand. In the first innings Australian Captain Bill Lawry was confidently playing at score 35. He went for a copy book full stretched forward defense to smothered the spin of Bedi's delivery. The ball hit the inside of inclined blade of the bat and harmlessly rolling down to ground. But the ball never found the ground. Eknath Solkar, who was fielding at short leg at hand shaking distance was already went under the bat only to receive the ball with his outstretched right hand. All in a flash. Bill Lawry could not believe it. 70 thousand spectators took few seconds to react. I have seen many great catches in last 55 years. But nothing came near to that. Unfortunately no video or any mention of that in KZread or elsewhere. Without mentioning this any tribute to Eknath Solkar is incomplete.

Yes, solkar was a valuable & a unique criceter, espcially a sharp fielder like a chittah or leapord in the close in fielding.no other can be superior than him. Though my young period was of radio commentry yet I remember his smart catches in several test matches He & Abidali were very useful allrounders of our team.

Eknath Solkar...Greatest Indian Fielder ❤❤❤❤❤

Best close-in fielder of all time, Solkar was the king of dive catches. Stylish bowler, both spin and medium pace. Great all-rounder and a pleasure to watch. Saw him play in the 70s at Brabourne, Hindu gym, Oval maidan, Islam gym. Jackson, Mississippi.

@antaramgajbhiye6856

3 жыл бұрын

All time Grestesr fielder of the world

I had the good fortune of sharing drinks with Solkar at Madkeri Chitra Hotel in 1997. I had gone to the hotel with a friend of mine and saw Solkar having drinks alone. I went over to him and introduced myself to him and he was very glad and I offered him drinks. He came over to our table and shared drinks with us. Though i have not seen him in action physically, but heard his heroics through commentary. We had spin quartet. Well we had quartet in Wadekar ata slips, Venkat at Gully, Solkar in forward shortleg and Abid in backward shortleg. If had played now, probably he would have been the best feilder in the world.

EKNATH SOLKAR HE WAS DISCOVERED BY OUR SCHOOL TEACHER LATE MR. DABHOLKAR.WE WERE IN SAME CLASS WE PLAYED AND WON HARISH SHIELD. AND HE WON MANY MANY CUPS WE WAS VICE CAPTAIN OF INDIA

Boycott's nemesis. One of the Greatest close in fielders of all time. Oval Test 1971 - clippings of his catch to dismiss Alan Knott will forever remain in our memory.

@AmbrishIsCool

5 жыл бұрын

@Vishwanath Natarajan I will out you bloody ... 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣

Ekki, see all remember you, we have witnessed your cricket. Great.

@dilipnanoti125

4 жыл бұрын

See, that was golden era, i am unable to understand why cricket expert don't talk this ! We had ( 1965 to 1972 ) team of best close in fielders अजित वाडेकर ( स्लिप ) वेंकट राघवन ( शॉर्ट गली ) एक्की सोलकर ( फॉरवर्ड शॉर्ट लेग ) अबिद अली ( पॉईंट ) नवाब पतौडी ( कव्हर ) our bowlers were deadly because of these fielders.

@gopalakrishna4601

3 жыл бұрын

He is outstanding and all old spinners owed him a lot

Eknath Solkar, My All Time Favorite -- Right From My Very Young Days -- He Was The Best 👍🏼 Much Thanks 😊

One of the greatest cricketing all rounder. Humble Cricketer of our golden era.

'Ekkie' Solkar was a childhood school years hero-a God. Used to keep photo clips of his diving catches from newspapers and magazines. And colour photo cards, too! So when a '50 Best Catches by Indians' KZread video doesn't feature any of his many catches I consider it a lack of any sense of history in those who made that compilation. Catching, especially, shortleg catching was defined and re-defined by 'Ekkie'. He is The Gold Standard to measure any Catching prowess by. And none has been able to match it or even come close.The Tribute series is therefore a godsend and an immersive, nostalgic experience for me. Just that it could be made more universally acclaimed and cherished among the non-Marathi folks by (i) providing Sub-titles in English for the Marathi conversations, and (ii) by tagging the names of the cricketers and coaches featured in the video. I could recall the names of Milind Rege, Vasu Paranjpe, Ramnath Parker and a few others since I have grown up in that period but those of the newer generation will miss out on a lot of the rich content that the videos have to offer. I hope these can be incorporated in the Tribute series to help reach a larger audience which our super-hero "Ekkie' surely merits and deserves. 'EKKIE'- The One. The Only One.

@nzpers

4 жыл бұрын

+1 for English subtitles as well all the sentiments on Solkar

@suhasm3360

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Mbñ

@suhasm3360

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😮😊😊😊

Thank you Dwarkanath Sir for making it happen. We started following cricket at the age of 10 with India's famous West Indies tour of 1971. Sunil Gavaskar, Vishwanath, Ajit Wadekar, Eknath Solkar, Prasanna, Bedi, Venkat, Abid, Engineer, Sardesai , Durrani, Ghavri, Amarnath brothers, and even Ashok Mankad, Paddy Shivalkar, Ramnath Parkar and of course many more of that era were cricketers who gave us excellent cricketing moments. Ekki 's story is one of courage and determination to make it big in spite of his humble childhood. Incidentally he was my favorite cricketer of that timeframe. Thank you again to all those who made this program happen.

@nzpers

4 жыл бұрын

+1

Eknath,solkar.great,Indian.filder❤❤❤❤❤

gr8 tribute to eknath solkar.he was the most brilliant fielder.

Wonderful all rounder bowling, batting and specially fielding

One will never forget his magnificent catch of Knott in the Oval test 1971 which was halfest of half chance

@nzpers

4 жыл бұрын

We did not have tv then but our ears were glued (buried?) into transistor as the Oval match swung like the new ball swings in England. When Knott - who often bailed England out of trouble with some counter punching cameos was dismissed, we were 90% certain India will register a historic series win.

Eknath Solkar_ a very graceful n wholehearted cricketer. Certainly the best close_in fielder ever. Such a fearless n devoted team man. He gave us so many moments to cherish. RIP.

Best close in fielder India has ever.produced.

Solkar was really great and brave short-leg position fielder .Also great to see Chandra and Vishwanath who rarely seen on the platforms after their retirement. They were really great players.

@nzpers

4 жыл бұрын

+1

ekki, ना भूतो ना भविष्यती असा हा एकनिष्ठ खेळाडू

Great player.....off all time.....akenath solkar. .. .......🙏🙏🙏

A big salute to you sir Eknat Solkar

Vishy and Chandra my idols, love them even today. Vishy is so funny and humble, before everybody loved and admired Dravid, in those days everybody loved and admired Vishy

Really sad that not much is known about this wonderful cricketer. He saved India from many a batting collapse and triggered the end of many a rival side's collapse by his acrobatic catching. RIP Sri Eknath Solkar.

@nzpers

4 жыл бұрын

At one point of time he was called Mr Dependable or Mr Reliable for he bailed out India from crisis after crisis. Nothing spectacular perhaps but enough to save India the blushes and heart burns.

@suresh1957

4 жыл бұрын

@@nzpers So true Sir !

Eknath jaisa fielder nai hoga .Fear less with very sharp reflexes

Solkar. One of the all time best fielder of the world. He was very dependable all rounder during 1970 to 1977.

Once Tony Greig told wickets to be given to him not bowlers. When he took catch for Roops defensive shot Roop told it is a good shot.

True legend...

you should explain in english. Eknath was the best fielder of all time no question about it. The most fearless close in fielder ever

Sokar, my childhood hero!

@lalanasatose8668

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

One of our greatest heroes in the cricketing world and Indian cricket. May you rest in peace dear Eknath Solkar ji.

Great all rounder for India & Mumbai.

Thank you Sanzgiriji

Solkar my all time favourite miss u

That catch of Alan Knott off Venkataraghavan was extraordinary for people who minutely analysed the entire event. After Venkataraghavan released the ball, as Alan Knott was getting ready to play forward defensive stroke, Solkar anticipated the ball popping up and going towards backward short-leg direction. Solkar moved forward by taking a step forward towards backward short-leg direction with his right leg, thereby narrowing the angle as also distance between him and the point where ball was likely to land. That enabled Solkar to take the catch which, for anyone else, would not have been a catch at all. In Indian Test Cricket history the catches taken by Eknath Solkar will remain special for sheer audacity.

The famous spin quartret got more wkts bcz of Ekki.

yeh bhai dekh ke chalo,,, aage bhi nahi, piche bhi... great solkar.

i was the lucky spectator to see Eknath Dollar in action in Rangi as well as all tests in Bombay

Eknath Solkar and short leg are synonyms in Indian cricket. He showcased fielding in an Indian team that was not known for its fielding. Yes MAK Pataudi was a brilliant Cover fielder before Ekki arrived. Wadekar and Venkat were brilliant close catchers pre-Solkar debut. But Solkar was a sensation - when sensation was not a word in Indian cricket media dictionary. Like someone said in this segment of the video, he was perhaps the only all round fielder India ever had. Watched him debut against New Zealand in Hyd and then so many times he had played in Moin -ud- Dowla tournament in Hyderabad (for SBI or ACC, I dont remember). His 75 in the first Test in WI in 1971 and his support to Dilip Sardesai who scored his maiden ton and double ton in that Test turned a losing game (75/5, iirc, when Solkar joined Sardesai in the first innings) was a turning point for the series. Similarly his catching in the 1971 Summer in England was half the reason for the spinners to have a stranglehold on the bemused English batsmen. Solkar was the 'secret' little weapn that Ajit Wadekar unleashed on Boycott and non-plussed the prolific opener who failed to make any big score in that series. He ground out a typical Bombayite 'khaddoos' century against the West Indies in 1975 at Wankhede - his only Test ton to go with so many invaluable gutsy innings that did not get him big scores but let the batsman at the other end like Sardesai Vishy etc get big scores. Whether he scored just 12 in the infamous summer of 42 Test or much more, he gave his all - as a batsman, bowler and of course as a fielder. Eknath Solkar remains one of my fav Indian cricketers forever. As a fielder, Ekki was Ek hi (The only one)

Great Eknath

Solkar has taken excellent catch to dismiss Alan Knott at Oval in 1971

Greatest filder

great allrounder

Very special fielder in forwared n backward short leg.he never missed his catches.

उत्तम सादरीकरण.

Wonderful tribute.

नक्की ,सोलकर is ग्रेट क्रिकेटर

A very great player

kindly add subtitles in english or hindi to this vedio

He used to tell Boycott," I out you" in his broken English and he got him 3 times. Medium pacer.

Nice

सांझगीरी साहेब फारच छान परंतु पडद्यावर जी मोठमोठी व्यक्तीमत्व आपल्या आठवणी जाग्या करतात त्याची जर नावे समजतील तर अजूनही सुंदर होईल

Solkarsir.wemissyou.

कोण कोण...?

FWSleg is his Royal Place!

If anyone doesn't know anyone's name take screenshot and do an image search

15:00 Karsan Ghavari

Gundappa Vishavanath is showing his south indian swag.

14:00 Vasu Paranjape

Thanks to my friend js to forward this

Silent batsman.sir i alowes.afmire u.legglans.

Who was the person who spoke prior to Karsan Ghavri?

Excellent tribute to the graceful cricketer. From Chennai. 1.Do yu have a English translation of this program? 2. Who is the one sitting on the right side of Viswanath?. 3. Seeing some programs from this anchor? Whst is his name?

@futuramayekar2302

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Sanzgiri dwarkanath

@futuramayekar2302

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Vasu paranjpe is sitting next to vishy

Could somebody put the names of these luminaries who are speaking?

@nzpers

4 жыл бұрын

+1

Ekhnath solkar's birth place?

@xyzgenerationlifestylechan7754

3 жыл бұрын

Mumbai

Dwarkanath Sanzgiri yanchi khari olakh jaanun ghenyasathi ha video paha. kzread.info/dash/bejne/emik0buFhN3LYM4.html