He was 78 years outdated and is survived by his daughter.
“Recently, he fell on bathroom floor and sustained a head injury after which he was admitted to Mumbai hospital. He slipped into coma and never recovered,” an MCA supply, who repeatedly tracked his well being updates instructed PTI.
Naik was an immensely revered determine within the Mumbai cricket circles and a Ranji Trophy successful captain when he led the crew to blueriband glory in 1970-71 season.
Naik’s management was extremely counseled as Mumbai received the Ranji Trophy that season with out stars like Sunil Gavaskar, Ajit Wadekar, Dilip Sardesai, Ashok Mankad.
As irony would have it, when the 1972 Ranji season began, Naik was dropped from enjoying XI as the principle batters had been again within the squad.
In 1974, he went on a fateful tour of England and made his debut in Birmingham Test the place he received his solely half-century -77 within the second innings in a dropping trigger.
He performed 85 top notch video games and scored practically 4500 runs(4376) at a median of 35 plus and 7 hundred together with a double ton.
He nonetheless suffered so much because the erstwhile BCCI in Seventies was very weak in stature and crammed with subservient creatures who did not protest when he was wrongly accused of stealing two pairs of socks at a London departmental retailer.
In truth, Sunil Gavaskar had written in Sunny Days that Naik should not have plead responsible in entrance of the Justice of the Peace and will have been given lawyer to struggle the false accusation that did tarnish his popularity.
He was a tricky character and simply after the incident scored the gritty Test half-century. But in days of musical chair in Indian cricket, his worldwide profession did not final past 1974.
He did play an energetic position in later years as a coach and was a giant affect in Zaheer Khan’s profession as he introduced him to play cricket in Mumbai and offered him with requisite publicity
He was additionally a boss of Mumbai choice committee and in later years labored as a curator of Wankhede Stadium freed from price.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com