Honour over players by regulating black arm bands, says Sunil Gavaskar

Batting fable Sunil Gavaskar has called for a use of black arm bands by teams whenever a player, who has represented his or her country, passes away.

“New Zealand’s former captain John Reid also left us progressing in a week. He was one of New Zealand’s greats in a 1950s and was also ICC compare referee,” Gavaskar wrote in his Sunday mid-day column, after profitable abounding tributes to sports author and commentator Kishore Bhimani.

He added: “A few days earlier, Najeeb Tarakai, who played a unique one-day diversion and a few T20 internationals for Afghanistan, died after he was strike by a automobile while channel a road. “Disappointingly though unsurprisingly, no actor wore a black arm rope to uncover honour to a over souls. It appears that black arm bands will be ragged usually for some players though not each player. Whether we have played one diversion or hundreds of games for a country, a actor belongs to a cricketing family and notwithstanding any differences viewed or imagined, his or her flitting divided should be mourned by a fraternity.”

Of Bhimani, Gavaskar wrote: “Kishore also helped in sketch adult a minute to a BCCI when a Indian Cricketers Association was initial shaped on a India debate of West Indies in 1976. On a moody between a Caribbean Islands, he would lay with me and plead a arrangement of a Association and how to go about it.”

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