Ponnambath Mambally Krishnan Mohandas (31 January 1948 – 17 October 2004) was an Indian

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er who played at first-class level for

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during the 1972–73 season. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler. Mohandas was born in Mahé, in what was then part of

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but is now a district of the

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of Puducherry.Krishnan Mohandas
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 July 2015. He played state-level schools cricket for Kerala, which borders Mahé, in the early 1960s, but did not play for the senior team until October 1972, when he made his

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debut against Andhra.First-class matches played by Krishnan Mohandas
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 July 2015. Mohandas's first match was the first Ranji match of the season for Kerala, and he was one of eight debutants from both sides in a game where play was possible only on two days. He opened the bowling with Mohammed Ibrahim in Andhra's only innings without taking a wicket, but when coming in as a number-eleven batsman scored 24 runs out of a 29-run last-wicket stand with Ponmanichi Mackey. In the next match, against

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, Mohandas took 3/33 to be Kerala's best bowler in the first innings, as the side slumped to a 10-wicket loss. Given only four overs against Mysore (now

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), he went wicketless as his side was defeated within two days, and was then dropped for Kerala's final match of the season, against

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. In October 2004, at the age of 56, Mohandas died at his

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residence of a "massive heart attack". P. M. K. Raghunath, his younger brother, also played first-class cricket for Kerala, making his debut during the 1973–74 season. Their father, P. M. Krishnan, had had a longstanding involvement with what is now the Kerala Cricket Association. A teammate of Mohandas in all three of his first-class appearances was his cousin, A. P. M. Gopalakrishnan, whose father, P. M. Raghavan, and uncle, P. M. Anandan (both uncles of Mohandas and his brother), each played at first-class level for Travancore-Cochin, Kerala's predecessor. Outside of cricket, the family's business was baking.The History of Bestotel & Best Bakers
– Bestotel Best Bakers. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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