Career

Navle faced the historic first delivery of India"s first Test innings in 1932. He opened in both innings at Lord"s in 1932 and also kept wickets. A small man, Wisden called him "a first-rate wicket-keeper, very quick in all that he did".

He played for Indians against Arthur Gilligan"s Master Control Console team in 1926-1927 and Jack Ryder"s Australians nine years later.

In his later life he worked as a security guard in a sugar mill and lived in a humble two room flat in Poona. He had his schooling at the Bhave School in Poona.