MUMBAI, July 2: Former India batsman Dilip Sardesai has died at the age of 66 after a multiple organ failure, a Bombay Hospital spokesman said on Monday. Sardesai was recently admitted to hospital for a chest infection and had also been suffering from several health problems.

He played 30 Tests between 1961 and 1972, collecting five hundreds and nine half-centuries at an average of just under 40. He scored 2,001 runs.

Sardesai is best remembered for hitting 642 runs with three hundreds, including a double century, in India's first Test series victory in West Indies in 1970-71.

Later that year he scored 54 and 40 in the Oval Test before leg-spinner Bhagwat Chandrasekhar took six for 38 to spin the visitors to their maiden test series win in England.—Reuters