Indore, Jan 02: Former Test cricketer and a pillar of the erstwhile Holkar cricket team Hiralal Gaekwad died at Bagdogra in Assam yesterday after protracted illness, family sources said here today. He was 82.

He represented India in just one test match in 1952 against England.

The left-arm medium pacer played 66 Ranji matches and took 278 wickets while playing for Madhya Bharat and Madhya Pradesh and as a batsman scored 1960 runs in 95 innings.

In first class cricket he scored 2487 runs and took 375 wickets.

In 1979 the Indian cricket board had organised a beneficial match in Indore for the cricketer.

Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) secretary Sanjay Jagdale, former Test cricketers Chandu Sarvate and Mushtaq Ali among others have condoled Geakwad's demise.