During my 55 years of cricket journey –from 1968 to 2023,  I have met the following Indian test cricketers and interacted them. I was indeed very lucky to have the autographs of few cricketers on their test career chalked out by me. MJ Gopalan, PR Umrigar, HR Adhikari, L Amaranath, ML Jaisimha, MAK  Pataudi, FM Engineer, CT Sarwate, BP Gupte, EAS Prasanna, BS Chandrasekhar, GR Viswanath, BP Patel ,SMH Kirmani, S Venkataraghavan, SR Tendulkar, V Sehwag, J Srinath, A Kumble, Shivlal Yadav, AM Mankad, Raghuram Bhat, GR Sunderam, VG Kambli, P Amre, L Rajput. CS Pandit, BS Bedi, CPS Chauhan, M Amaranath, M Azharuddin, K Srikkanth, Kapil Dev, V Merchant. VL Manjrekar, SV Manjrekar, P Mhambrey, VVS Laxman, CK Nayudu, CD Gopinath, HT Dani, JM Ghorpade, P Roy, AG Kripal Singh, VL Mehra, RG Nadakarni, CG Borde, RB Desai, VM Muddaiah, SA Durani, AG Milkha Singh, Hanumant Singh, SM Gavaskar, AL Wadekar, HK Jayantilal, Arshad Ayub, MSK Prasad, S Madanlal, AD Gaekwad, DB Vengsarkar, Bharat Reddy, RMH Binny, STR Binny, J Arunlal, TE Srinivasan, L Sivaramakrishnan, TAP Sekar, NS Sidhu, M Prabhakar, CS Sharma, WV Raman, SA Ankola, V Razdan, SLV  Raju, AS Wassan, SB Joshi, BKV Prasad, SC Ganguly, Ghulam Parkar, DJ  Johnson, Dodda Ganesh, Robin Singh, RV Bharadwaj, RR Powar, A Mithun, R Vinay Kumar, KL Rahul, KK Nair, MA Agarwal, Ajay Ratra, AA Baig, V Subramanya, Yashpal Sharma, DG Phadkar, RC Shukla, VV Kumar, VB Chzndrasekhar and Ravi Shastry and  a few others

I had also met PBH May and was lucky to have coffee with him during a Test match while I was working in Madras. Other visiting cricketers I have met are – Hanif Mohammad, John Wright. Desmond Haynes, Alvin Kallicharran, Rohan Kanhai, Garry Sobers, Shane Warne, Wasim Akram, Ian Bishop, Ramiz Raja, Donald Kerr, Arjun Ranatunga. M Jayawardene,  Russel  Arnold, John Reid, Danny Morrison, Ali Bacher, Kepler Wessels, Bobby Simpson,  Raman Subba Rao, Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, David Gower, Barry Richards.

Amongst the first-class cricketers on the Indian domestic cricketers I have met are – Vinay Lamba, Venkat Sundaram, V Ramanarayan, his brother Sivaramakrishnan, B Raghunath, BS Viswanath, CB Prasannasimha Rao, CR Lasminarayan, Captain K Thimmappaiah, AV Venkatanarayuan, SK Tarapore, Yere Gowda, Carlton  Saldhana, Sanjay Desai, YB Patel, MR Patel, PR Ashokanand, AS Krishnaswamy, CJ Ramdev, Safi Darashah, Vijaya Prakash, Siddarama, AV Jayaprakash,AV Jagannath, Najam Hussain, KR Rajagopal, Kastuirangan, K Sriram, P Mukund, K Srinivasan Balaji, HS Puttakempanna, PV Shashikanth, HT Bhaskar Rao, HT Ramesh Rao, Sai Eswar, MR Jayaram, MR Sridhar and MR Vasudev, JK Mahendra, Padmanabhan, MS Ananthaswamy Rao, MS Hanumesh and a host of others.