Ajit Wadekar

They've had their run in the '60s.

I'm going to get rid of them." And my father had an open confrontation with him, said, "You may be a great, uh, great cricketer, but you're not exactly the nicest human being." Because even if, even if I'm scoring, and my dad was the highest run-getter in the Ranji Trophy that year, but Merchant said he wanted to get rid of the old guard, and then brought him back in 1971 only on the insistence of Ajit Wadekar, who was the captain then.

Rest is history.

And the ru- the story goes, removed Tiger Pataudi and brought in Wadekar only because Merchant had a problem with Pataudi's father in the 1940s.

And, and Frank Worrell's great, but he's nowhere near that.

Uh, Ajit Wadekar at five.

I think the other two teams have much stronger number fives.

Pulle Umrigar at six.