Budhi Kunderan (centre) with manager Keki Tarapore and Dilp Sardesai (right) on the 1967 tour of England where India lost 0-3. Pic/Getty Images

Considering the fine entertainer that the late Budhi Kunderan was, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has chosen a right time — during the highly-entertaining Indian Premier League — to nominate him for special recognition at this year's awards ceremony. Like many of Kunderan's admirers, I was delighted at the decision for more reasons than just the fact that I knew him well through his brother Bharat, an erstwhile Indian schoolboy cricketer.