During his stint with the Adelaide Cricket Club, Chetan Chauhan stumped his team-mates by arriving as Gandhi for a farewell party ©Cricbuzz
As the 1985-86 SACA District Cricket season drew to a close, Steve Gentle decided to throw an "Aussie Night" themed farewell party at his home in Adelaide. It included a very traditional fare, embellished with snags (sausages), party-pies and Lamingtons. His Aussie teammates from the Adelaide Cricket Club (ACC) came duly dressed as their individual versions of Arthur Dunger, the stereotypical Australian yobbo or uncultured slob that Paul Hogan immortalised around that time on TV. The zinc cream, the hat, the tank top and the thongs, they had it all. However, none of them managed to stand out to any great extent.
That honour belonged to their captain and coach who was the last to enter. And Chetan Chauhan did so by arriving as Gandhi before delivering the toast for the evening intentionally in Hindi with his then-wife Anita translating it for the locals' sake. It's an avatar of their skipper and a speech that Gentle and every single one of his guests recall very fondly even now, some 35 years later.
"He had all us Arthur Dungers stumped and stole the show yet again," as Steve Trenorden, who bowled medium-pace and batted in the lower order that season, describes it to Cricbuzz.
It wasn't the only mark the late Indian opener, who died after
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