Kenny played another brilliant innings, outshining the Indian captain Polly Umrigar in a match winning partnership of 131 and mastering the bowling of Nayudu. Placing the ball "whereever he liked", he scored 132 in 191 minutes with 16 fours. In the semifinal at the Bombay Gymkhana, Kenny scored a career best 218 against Madras. On another wicket that helped spinners, Bombay lost early wickets. Kenny added 289 runs with Rusi Modi and 152 with Hoshang Amroliwala. He confidently went down the wicket to the spinners and "tore the bowling to shreds. From fine leg glances to extra cover drives, the strokes flowed from his bat". This was third hundred in consecutive innings. He scored only 2 runs in the final against Services, his only failure in the season. Bowling with the second new ball, Surendranath had Kenny edging to the slips where the catch was dropped by the future Air Marshall Gyanendranath Kunzru. But in Surendranath's next over, he mistimed a hook to short fine leg. Kenny topped the 1956-57 Ranji aggregates with 529 runs. He already had a reputation for batting well on the difficult wickets in the Kanga League. Test career Bombay was eliminated early in the Ranji Trophy in 1957–58 but in the season after, Kenny scored 142 against Maharashtra. Scored in 4 hours with a five and 19 fours, it came in a team score of 320 where no other batsman made more than 35. He was selected for the third Test against West Indies that started the following week. India lost two quick wickets when they started their innings late on the second day. Captain Ghulam Ahmed sent in Kenny and Ghorpade early to protect the senior batsmen Vijay Manjrekar and Polly Umrigar from the bowlers Wes Hall, Roy Gilchrist and Sonny Ramadhin. Both batsmen survived the day but Kenny fell to Hall for 16 & 0 on the third, his off-stump uprooted by an outswinger in the second innings. India lost by an innings and 336, still their worst defeat in Test cricket. Kenny was one of the several players dropped from the team. Kenny did not play in the other Tests of the series and was not picked for the tour to England in 1959. But at a time when India was selecting and rejecting players and captains at rapid intervals, the next chance came around when Australia visited India a few months