MUMBAI: Anant Solkar, the younger brother of India's legendary cricketer Eknath Solkar, passed away at his residence in Bandra on Sunday at the age of 72. A talented off-spinning allrounder, Anant, popularly known as 'Anya' locally, was known to be a brilliant fielder and a talented cricketer like his elder brother. Solkar played 26 First-Class matches for Railways and Maharashtra, in which he took 63 [email protected], and scored 628 runs with one half-century.
“He was hospitalised for a while due to an injury,” an old-timer who knew him well told this paper. Anant was four years younger to his brother Eknath, who had passed away in 2005.
