India, April 10 -- India's oldest living Test cricketer, CD Gopinath, died at the age of 96 on Thursday, marking the end of the last living link to the country's first-ever Test-winning team. Gopinath was the world's second-oldest living Test cricketer after Australian great Neil Harvey (97) and is survived by his wife, children and grandchildren. In the statistician's book, Gopinath's numbers will always remain modest - 8 Tests, that yielded 242 runs with one fifty. But, typically of him, Gopinath never felt bitter about a short career that started on a promising note with a 50 and 42 against England at the Brabourne in 1951. But Gopinath remained a significant figure in domestic cricket, scoring heavily and captaining Madras. He scored 4,259 runs in 83 matches at an average of 42. He also tallied nine hundreds. Following his demise, Mumbai's 95-year-old Chandrakant Patankar has become the country's oldest cricketer. P14...