C Madathil Ashok Sekhar, popularly known as CM Ashok Sekhar, was an Indian

cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

er who played 35 first-class matches between 1967 and 1977 for

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

. Sekhar played as a

wicket-keeper In cricket, the wicket-keeper is the Cricket player, player on the fielding (cricket), fielding side who stands behind the wicket, ready to stop Delivery (cricket), deliveries that pass the batsman, and take a Caught, catch, Stumped, stump the ...

, batsman and captained the Kerala team. Sekhar also served as a

Match referee A match referee is an official appointed to oversee professional cricket matches. Match referees for Test matches and One Day Internationals are appointed by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Most matches below international level do not ...

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* 1946 births 2019 deaths Kerala cricketers Indian cricketers 20th-century Indian sportsmen South Zone cricketers Sportspeople from Dar es Salaam {{India-cricket-bio-1940s-stub