10 greatest cricketers from Mumbai

#5 Dilip Vengsarkar

Dilip Vengsarkar is one of the country's most famous batsmen

Dilip Vengsarkar is one of the finest batsmen to come from Mumbai. He, along with Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, formed the batting core of the Indian team in the late 70s and 80s. In fact, he was even rated as world's best batsman; a ranking which he held on for 21 months in a row.

Vengsarkar represented Bombay in 260 First class games. He scored 17,868 runs that consisted of 55 centuries.

He scored as many as three centuries at the Lord's, thereby making the only visiting batsman to do so. In an era where helmets were not used by the batsmen, he scored many runs against the brutal Windies pace attack. Vengsarkar was awarded the Arjuna award in 1981 and Padma Shri in 1987.

He played 116 Test matches and amassed 6868 runs at 42.13. He also represented India in 129 ODIs and scored 3508 runs at an average of 35.

Post retirement, Vengsarkar got into Cricket administration and served various posts.