MY HOMAGE TO AJIT WADEKAR

MY HOMAGE TO AJIT WADEKAR

Cricket is something he breathed in.
He pioneered 'cricket for blind'
once i met him in Mumbai Press Club...2001....he asked where from I am:
"I said PTI"...
he shot back: "Which team or state you played".
I laughed. He corrected me and said: "You must have played cricket in school or in your gulley".

I said: Sir, Shillong Anthony's School and Nagaland.He laughed - and said: "u must be brave"....whatever that means...then came the climax - He said: "I played for India...I am Ajit Wadekar". I felt humbled, almost bowed down to touch his feet.

My homage !!

One more:

Those days, Jagmohan.....Jagmohan Dalmiya

was the BCCI chief...

Indian team had problems in South Africa tour...many players were banned by a temperamental umpire. Even Sachin.

Sachin Tendulkar: suspended ban for one Test Match due to ball-tampering charges.[2]
Virender Sehwag: banned for one Test match due to excessive appealing.
Sourav Ganguly: suspended ban for one Test match and two One Day Internationals due to inability to control the behaviour of his team.

Indian announced 'boycott'. Gentleman that Wadekar was-- he said: "we are stressing things too far".

TAIL PIECE

In India, the popular press was in overdrive. "Denness' sense of fairness dates back to the Victorian era when Britannia ruled the waves," fumed an editorial in the Hindu. "In the event, Denness truly believes - in the manner of his forefathers who ruled this land with such cunning for so long - that there are always two sets of rules. Nothing has changed since the days when the sun never set on the British Empire." Inevitably, politicians jumped on the bandwagon and demanded retribution. - MARTIN WILLIAMSON

ends !