Queenslanders saw one of their own in the first and only Indian Test player to play in the Sheffield Shield
Fifty-three years ago, the second Indian Test team to tour Australia arrived, turning the wheel of history and sowing the seeds of the respect Virat Kohli’s modern-day team now enjoy. One player in particular on that tour, a man of ancient bloodlines, put in a display of all-round
Cricket that heralded the arrival of a new
India.
“Rusi Surti would take no nonsense from anyone, which Australians could relate to,” says Kersi Meher-Homji, proud Parsi-Australian and author of 16 cricket books. “He was a brilliant cricketer – an elegant left hander who could bat like a millionaire, bowl like a miser and field like a superman. He was like a panther on the prowl.”