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Hit a 56-ball ton, shaped Dravid; the man behind CSK’s $1.5m Dhoni bid who played only 7 ODIs, died by suicide amid debt

Vakkadai Biksheswaran Chandrasekhar, an engineer and mathematician who did not break into first-class cricket until 25, quickly left an indelible mark on Indian cricket. 91, highlighted by a 160-run knock in the quarter-final against Uttar Pradesh and 89 in an innings-and-144-run final victory over Railways.

Later that year in the Irani Trophy, after suffering a golden duck in his opening knock against a Rest of India side featuring Narendra Hirwani, Chandrasekhar struck a blazing 119 off 78 deliveries to match Rajesh Borah's record for the quickest first-class century by an Indian in 56 balls, carrying Tamil Nadu to a 340-run chase with three wickets in hand. Rishabh Pant eventually broke that domestic benchmark with a 48-ball hundred in 2016.