(Baseer Shamsi) then a Captain in the British Indian Army, was posted from Burma to Malaya, Kula Lumpur and being a keen cricketer, he went to the Selangor Club to play cricket and was surprised to meet Lall Singh working as groundsman at the club. In 1946, A.B. Shamsi, married Lall Singh's elder niece Ajmer Kaur, who converted to Islam taking the maiden name of Neelum, on 11 September 1946. In 1950, Sultan Sir Hishamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, the Sultan of Selangor, a friend of the Gill family, visited the Selangor Club and was shocked to see Lall Singh working as a groundsman. To cut a long story short, the Sultan started the process of rehabilitating the estates of the Gill family to Lall Singh. Since most of the estates, fixed and moveable assets were in the name of Lall Singh's mother who had died in 1946 and SS Gill who had been hanged in 1942, it took over 2 years for these properties to be reissued in the name of Lall Singh in 1953. Lall Singh, spent rest of his days travelling abroad, mostly to Paris on a yearly basis in summer. He died peacefully on 19 November 1985 in Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur. An inter school cricket tournament is held annually in Kuala Lumpur for the ‘Lall Singh Shield’. The Sikh community in Malaysia, organise an annual tournament between clubs for the ‘Lall Singh Trophy’. Golden Jubilee He was one of oldest players to attend the Golden Jubilee Test in Bombay in 1980 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of BCCI. See also List of Test cricketers born in non-Test playing nations References External links Richard Cashman, Patrons, Players and the Crowd : The Phenomenon of Indian Cricket Mihir Bose, A History of Indian Cricket (1990 edition) Roy Morgan, Encyclopedia of World Cricket Christopher Martin-Jenkins, A Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers 1909 births 1985 deaths Sportspeople from Kuala Lumpur India Test cricketers Federated Malay States cricketers Malayan cricketers Malaysian Sikhs Malaysian people of Punjabi descent Malaysian sportspeople of Indian descent Indian cricketers Patiala cricketers Hindus cricketers Southern Punjab cricketers