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Gopalan is oldest living Test player

Chennai Nov. 1. M. J. Gopalan, at 94 years and 148 days, has now become the oldest living Test cricketer. The mantle fell on Tamil Nadu's Gopalan following the death of New Zealand's Gordon Lindsay Weir at age 95 years and 151 days at Auckland on Friday.

Gopalan, who also represented India in hockey, played as a pace-bowling all-rounder. In his only Test for India against Douglas Jardine's Englishmen at the Eden Gardens in 1934, Gopalan sent down 19 overs at the cost of 45 runs while claiming a wicket, and had scores of 11 not out and seven.

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