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I had the opportunity to play cricket against the unsung hero of Assam's
cricket world in 1951 & '52. I was then in Cotton College & were playing against the NF Railway. They had all the top cricketers of that time & to name few were : Abanida, Badalda ( Badal Thakur ), Aswini Rajbanshi, Guha Thakurata. In our team we had too quite a few top players like Girinda ( Barua ), Nilimoyda ( Chowdhury ), Dipuda ( Chowdhury ), Gandu ( hardly we knew his real name ), Chowdhury ( forgot his first name, he was from PanBazar, now may be somewhere in UK ).Since then I never forgot Abanida as a very stylish, successful cricketer.Whenever I go to Guwahati I often meet another sport doyen of Assam our beloved Pulinda ( Das ). His house is very near to my brother-in-law's house in Uzan Bazar, Guwahati. Unfortunaely I did not have the opportunity to meet Abanida for a long time. Thanks to Rini Kakati for writing about Abani da, the unsung hero of Assam's Cricket World. Mahesh Baishya |
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