MCA president Ajinkya Naik confirmed the appointment of Patil, who was the chairman of senior Mumbai team selection committee in 2016 and later lost MCA’s presidential election to the late Amol Kale in 2022

Clayton Murzello recalls a freewheeling conversation with the late Raj Singh Dungarpur, Team Manager in the glorious 1986 English summer, where Kapil Dev-led India won the only Test series in England by a 2-0 margin on June 23; Sunday mid-day comes up with an early celebration