Calcutta: Former India cricketer and Bengal captain Gopal Bose died following a cardiac arrest at a Birmingham hospital on Sunday. He was 71 and is survived by his wife and son Arijit.

An opening batsman, Bose had scored 3,757 runs in 78 first-class games with eight hundreds and 17 fifties. He also took 72 wickets with his handy off-breaks including one five-wicket haul.

He was the first cricketer from Bengal to play an ODI against England in 1974.