Bharat Kunderan, the former India Schools wicketkeeper-batsman passed away in the city on Monday. 

He was in his early 70s. Bharat, the brother of departed Test star Budhi, went on the 1968-69 Indian Schoolboys tour of Australia. Some of his teammates in the tour party like Mohinder Amarnath, Karsan Ghavri and Brijesh Patel went on to wear India colours.