Similarly Vijay Manjrekar, who was a conspicuously good player of fast bowling in an era when India had few of them. He scored unbeaten 102 against New Zealand in 1965 at Chapauk in his last test. His twoe best Test series were against New Zealand in India in 1955-56 (386 runs, average 77.20) and against England in India in 1961-62 (586 runs, average 83.71). He made seven Test centuries, the highest his 189 against England at Delhi in 1961-62 and the last of them in his final Test innings, against New Zealand at Madras in February 1965.