Budhi Kunderen
At the tender age of 6, my cricket baptism was started with Dhoka and Paat. Those days, Dhoka was the most universal way to wash the clothes. Dhoka would be perfect bat for kids with Paat(wooden seat for a dinner) would act as a stump standing aginast the main door. Prakash – my cousin who stayed with us in those days – made sure that I learnt everything about Cricket so as to be team companion in home cricket, Names would fly Ken Barrington, Tom Graveny, Basil D’Olivera, Garfield Sobers, Wes Hall, Charlie Griffith but along with these, was another name that he was very fond of . That was Budhi Kundren- wicket keeper. By the time I learnt the nuances of this game, new names like Indrajitsingh, Krishnamurti and Farookh Enginner had come on the scene. Budhi Kundren passed into oblivion in all these years till I came across an article by H Natarajan on Cricket discussions forum wrote about Budhi Kundren after his passing away in distant land of Scotland. Suddenly, cricket with Dhoka,