No one present at the Brabourne Stadium on Wednesday probably recalls Denis Comptons’s superb efforts of 91 and 124 for the Europeans against the Hindus in the semifinals of the Pentagulars in his last match at the Dinshaw Vaccha Road venue in 1946.
But the day saw a third generation Compton — in the England opener Nick — appear in flannels at the storied ground in nearly seven decades.
Facing the third ball from Ashok Dinda operating with the new ball, the right-hander from Taunton nicked to the ’keeper to be dismissed for a duck.
And with that unhappy episode the Compton reputation took a minor blow.
Denis Compton, in fact, has a pretty impressive record at Brabourne — 844 runs with four centuries, with a best of an unbeaten 249 for Holkar against Bombay in the Ranji Trophy final of 1945.
via The Hindu Newspaper http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/a-small-blow-to-the-compton-name/article4051587.ece
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