10 greatest cricketers from Mumbai

#7 Polly Umrigar

Polly Umrigar was one of Indian team's stalwarts in his era

Polly Umrigar is another famous cricketer from Mumbai. A middle-order batsman by profession, Umrigar even bowled occasional medium pacers. He even captained the Indian team in eight test matches.

Umrigar represented Bombay in 243 first class games. He went to score as many as 16,155 runs in his first class career at a staggering average of 52.28. These runs comprised of as many as 49 centuries and 80 half centuries. His superb performances in many unofficial tournaments brought him to national reckoning.

Umrigar was a successful batsman of his era, scoring 12 centuries in Test matches. He was a strongly built batsman who was especially strong in front of the wicket. Umrigar also scored the first double century by an Indian in Test cricket against New Zealand in Hyderabad.

He represented India in 59 Tests and ended up scoring 3631 runs at an average of 42.22.