Gavaskar plans trust fund for former players

Sunil Gavaskar plans to institute a trust fund for former Test and first-class cricketers who have fallen on hard times. His decision to do so comes soon after the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced a monthly pension of Rs 5000 for all former Test cricketers. That trust that Gavaskar plans to establish will be funded with money donated by the more affluent former players.

According to reports, he had been considering the idea for a while, and decided to go ahead once he received a favourable response from several contemporaries. Many former cricketers who have carved out a niche for themselves in various fields after retirement have expressed their desire to contribute to the trust, which will help those who lost their way once they were divorced from the game they contributed to.