Dr Chandu Patankar wants better grounds
Updated On: 21 October, 2022 08:23 AM IST | Mumbai | Subodh Mayure
Patankar, who played the Kolkata Test against New Zealand in 1956, wants the newly elected MCA office-bearers and Apex Council to work for the betterment of Mumbai cricket
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Ex-MCA vice president Pankaj Thakur (left), BCCI treasurer Ashish Shelar, ex-MCA secretary Sanjay Naik and former MCA administrator Prof Ratnakar Shetty at Wankhede Stadium yesterday. Pic/Subodh Mayure
Mumbai’s oldest surviving Test cricketer, Dr Chandu Patankar, 91, made it for the Mumbai Cricket Association’s elections at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday. Patankar, who played the Kolkata Test against New Zealand in 1956, wants the newly elected MCA office-bearers and Apex Council to work for the betterment of Mumbai cricket.
“I am expecting the elected body to improve ground and pitch conditions [of the maidans], which are not good now. It is also important to conduct all tournaments regularly,” Patankar told mid-day on Thursday.
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