Mumbai Test: Shardul Thakur’s kind foster for childhood coach

Former Mumbai leg-spinner and Shardul Thakur's manager Vishu Lele watches a fourth Test compare between India and England from a President's Box during a Wankhede yesterday. Pic/Subodh Mayure
Former Mumbai leg-spinner and Shardul Thakur’s manager Vishu Lele watches a fourth Test compare between India and England from a President’s Box during a Wankhede yesterday. Pic/Subodh Mayure

Cricket coaches always safeguard their students are treated to live matches during stadiums and in doing so, arrange for giveaway passes. However, it was a opposite conditions during a Wankhede Stadium yesterday during a ongoing fourth Test between India and England. Mumbai pacer Shardul Thakur went out of his approach to make certain that his childhood manager Vishu (Vishwanath) Lele enjoyed a record from a stands.

Ratnakar Shetty also helps
Thakur, who assimilated a Indian group on Saturday night, after finishing his Ranji Trophy commitments with Mumbai, also sought assistance from a Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) General Manager (Games Development) Professor Ratnakar Shetty, who ensured Lele got a good chair during a Wankhede.

Lele not usually witnessed a Test match, though also got to see a renovated Wankhede Stadium. It can be removed that a 85-year-old former Mumbai, Shivaji Park Gymkhana and Dadar Union all-rounder wanted to see Indian idol Sachin Tendulkar’s final Test opposite a West Indies in 2013, though was denied a pass by a Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).

Shardul Thakur
Shardul Thakur

He has lustful memories of a aged Wankhede when he scored 98 in a Kanga League compare during a age of 57. “I wish to forget my knowledge here in 2013 when we came to see a renovated Wankhede and Sachin’s final compare from Pune. No one from MCA gave me a pass and we had to lapse but saying that match,” Lele told mid-day yesterday.

“I used to manager Shardul in Tarapur earlier. we don’t know how he came to know about a incident. we spoke to Professor Ratnakar Shetty and this time a knowledge was different,” Lele added. The former Mumbai leg-spinner was seen seated during a Wankhede’s Grand Stand on Saturday and during a President’s Box yesterday. “I came yesterday and watched a compare from a stands that are during a good height. Today was a totally opposite experience. we was not awaiting this reception. My aged crony Prakash Kelkar helped me get down to a President’s Box,” pronounced Lele, who played his first-class cricket for Mumbai from 1953 to 1969.

‘IPL inspiring leg-spinners’
Lele, who claimed 92 wickets in 33 first-class matches, felt a Indian Premier League (IPL) is inspiring a peculiarity of Indian leg-spinners. “Now we are incompetent to see genuine leg-spinners. The diversion is changing a lot since of a IPL. They (IPL teams) don’t wish spinners. They wish bowlers who can usually shorten a upsurge of runs. You need to play usually 4 overs. But leg-spinners have to buy wickets and he needs to give a flight,” he added.

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