When Baroda’s vice-captain Vishnu Solanki reached his century against Chandigarh on Day Two of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group B match in Bhubaneswar on Friday, he attracted applause from not only his teammates, but members in the opposite camp too.

But the recipient of kudos may well have been trying hard to hold back the tears. For, on February 12, Solanki lost his day-old daughter in Baroda while he was in Bhubaneswar for his Ranji Trophy fixture against Bengal. According to Baroda team manager Raju Arothe, Solanki moved out of the bio-secure bubble, flying to Baroda via Hyderabad to be with his family on hearing the devastating news.