In the given context and for his time Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Farookh Engineer was certainly a foretaste of the much later Adam Gilchrist of our times. In between Farookh and Adam Gilchrist came Sri Lankan keeper-batsman Kaluwitharana who too created all sorts of problems for the frontline bowlers and fielders at the beginning of almost every innings in both versions of the game. Nice write up by Rediff on India's great keeper-batsman of the 1960s and 70s.
