Hanumant, Paranjpe resignations nothing to do with Gavaskar issue, says Dungarpur

The resignations of National Cricket Academy (NCA) director Hanumant Singh and coach Vasu Paranjpe have nothing to do with former India skipper and NCA committee member Sunil Gavaskar's resignation after a tiff with the NCA chairman Raj Singh Dungarpur.

Dungarpur said in Mumbai on Sunday that the two issues had no connection whatsoever as it is made out to be and both Hanumant and Paranjpe had tendered their resignations two months ago. The resignations were accepted at the NCA meeting on Friday.

"We tried to persuade Hanumant Singh to carry on as director for some more time but in vain," he added.

"Not even a `mali' (groundsman) has resigned after Gavaskar quit. In fact Hanumant wanted to be relieved as he could not leave his family alone for a long period of time while Paranjpe could not leave his wife alone in Mumbai after his son Jatin married and shifted to his new house in the suburbs," Dungarpur said.

Gavaskar and Dungarpur had a show down after Gavaskar, in his column, had said that NCA boys should not have got a three-day game against the Zimbabweans in their tour opener at Indore.

Dungarpur, who objected to this, called for the batting legend's resignation in an interview to the same tabloid on the following day. This was given by Gavaskar on Friday.

Indian Cricket Board executive secretary Sharad Diwadkar told PTI in Mumbai on Sunday that reports in a section of the press that another NCA and junior team coach Roger Binny too had quit was not true.

Board secretary Jaywant Lele told PTI from Baroda over phone "as far as I know, Roger Binny has not resigned as coach as his name did not come up at the meeting on Saturday while we did discuss the matter concerning Hanumant Singh and Vasu Paranjpe."