{"id":1124,"date":"2017-11-10T13:51:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:53:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T13:53:32","slug":"milkha-singh-former-test-cricketer-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2017\/11\/10\/milkha-singh-former-test-cricketer-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Milkha Singh former test cricketer passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former India cricketer A G Milkha Singh passed away on Friday following a cardiac arrest at a hospital.\u00a0\u00a0He was 75. Milkha Singh played four Test matches in the early 60s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailychakra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/MILKHASINGH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedailychakra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/MILKHASINGH-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by wife, a son and daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Milkha Singh played four Test matches in the early 60s.<\/p>\n<p>His elder brother Kripal Singh, also played for the country, in 14 Tests. They played together in one Test against England in 1961-\u201962. Milkha Singh made his Ranji Trophy debut at 17 and played his first Test just after his 18th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>He had a fruitful career for Madras (now Tamil Nadu) in the Ranji Trophy. He scored over 4,000 runs in first-class cricket inclusive of eight centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Milkha Singh was employed with the State Bank of India.Expressing his condolences, former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi wrote on Twitter: \u201cOnce the most attacking left hand batsman o his times AG Milkha Singh is no more..\u2019AG\u2019 clan is diminishing..RIP Micky..Guru MEHR Kareh..!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India cricketer A G Milkha Singh passed away on Friday following a cardiac arrest at a hospital.\u00a0\u00a0He was 75. Milkha Singh played four Test matches in the early 60s. &nbsp; &nbsp; He is survived by wife, a son and daughter. Milkha Singh played four Test matches in the early 60s. His elder brother Kripal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[275,268,271,266,272,276,265,274,267,273,277,269,270],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-000-runs-in-first-class","tag-a-g-milkha-singh","tag-a-son-and-daughter","tag-former-test-cricketer","tag-kripal-singh","tag-madras-now-tamil-nadu","tag-milkha-singh","tag-over-4","tag-passes-away","tag-ranji-trophy-debut-at-17","tag-rip-micky-guru-mehr-kareh","tag-test-matches-in-the-early-60s","tag-wife"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}