Cricket nursery gets fresh lease of life

Once a breeding ground for international cricketers, the Dadar Union Club has been fighting for survival over the last few years, but former Indian batsman Dilip Vengsarkar is determined to revive his former club, writes Devendra Pandey in the Indian Express.

“It will be the right time to repay all my dues to the club which helped me and a number of others to play for India. It is a great institution, which produced many players for the country,” explains Vengsarkar, who spent 25 years with Dadar Union.

There are others who took their initial steps towards cricketing stardom at Dadar Union — among those are a number of international cricketers like Madhav Mantri, Narendra Tamhane, Sunil Gavaskar, Ramnath Parkar and Sanjay Manjrekar — and polished their game. Legend has it that Gavaskar ended up playing a Kanga league match for the club just after landing from his record-breaking maiden international tour to the West Indies.