Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, who has backed Dr Vijay Patil's Cricket First panel in the June 17 elections of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), in his meeting with voters yesterday at Matoshree revealed why his party withdrew their support to former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar when he contested for the president's post against Late Vilasrao Deshmukh in 2011.


Uddhav Thackeray 

Like Patil, Vengsarkar, who is contesting for the vice-president's post this time from the Bal Mahaddalkar group, too garnered Shiv Sena's support to help him beat Deshmukh. But the former India chairman of selector lost to the Congress bigwig by 45 votes.