| P. M. K. Mohandas | |
| Country: | India |
| Fullname: | Ponnambath Mambally Krishnan Mohandas |
| Birth Date: | 31 January 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Mahé, French India |
| Death Place: | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm medium-fast |
| Family: | P. M. K. Raghunath (brother) A. P. M. Gopalakrishnan (cousin) P. M. Raghavan (uncle) P. M. Anandan (uncle) |
| Club1: | Kerala |
| Year1: | 1972 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | FC |
| Matches1: | 3 |
| Runs1: | 51 |
| Bat Avg1: | 17.00 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 24 |
| Deliveries1: | 120 |
| Wickets1: | 3 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 24.00 |
| Fivefor1: | 0 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 3/33 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 1/– |
| Date: | 21 July |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/35/35735/35735.html CricketArchive |
Ponnambath Mambally Krishnan Mohandas (31 January 1948 – 17 October 2004) was an Indian cricketer who played at first-class level for Kerala 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 French India but is now a district of the Union Territory of Puducherry.[1] He played state-level schools cricket for Kerala, which borders Mahé, in the early 1960s,[2] but did not play for the senior team until October 1972, when he made his Ranji Trophy debut against Andhra.[3] 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.[4] In the next match, against Hyderabad, Mohandas took 3/33 to be Kerala's best bowler in the first innings, as the side slumped to a 10-wicket loss.[5] Given only four overs against Mysore (now Karnataka), he went wicketless as his side was defeated within two days,[6] and was then dropped for Kerala's final match of the season, against Tamil Nadu.[3]
In October 2004, at the age of 56, Mohandas died at his Thiruvananthapuram residence of a "massive heart attack".[7] [8] P. M. K. Raghunath, his younger brother, also played first-class cricket for Kerala, making his debut during the 1973–74 season.[1] Their father, P. M. Krishnan, had had a longstanding involvement with what is now the Kerala Cricket Association.[9] 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.[1] Outside of cricket, the family's business was baking.[10]