BCCI Comes In Support Of Cancer-Stricken Anshuman Gaekwad, Releases Rs 1 Crore For Ex-India Coach’s Treatment
The 71-year-old Anshuman Gaekwad played 40 Tests and 15 ODIs for India between 1975 and 1987.
Mumbai: After Kapil Dev and Sandip Patil’s appeals to aid an ailing Anshuman Gaekwad, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday determined to launch Rs 1 crore for the remedy of former India captain and teach, who's combating blood cancer at a scientific facility in London. Gaekwad has been below remedy for most likely essentially the most well identified 365 days.
“Mr. Jay Shah has urged the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) to launch Rs 1 crore with right away have an effect on to provide financial help to India’s veteran cricketer Mr Anshuman Gaekwad, who's combating cancer,” BCCI apex council recounted in a assertion.
Gaekwad, son of former India captain DK Gaekwad, is undergoing remedy for blood cancer on the King’s College Health center in London. “Shah has additionally spoken to Mr Gaekwad’s domestic to take stock of the and extend toughen. The board stands by Gaekwad’s domestic in this hour of disaster and can do regardless of is major for Mr Gaekwad’s swift recovery,” the assertion persisted.
“The BCCI will proceed to display Mr Gaekwad’s development and is optimistic that he'll come out of this part strongly,” it brought. The seventy one-12 months-historic Gaekwad played forty Assessments and 15 ODIs for India between 1975 and 1987. Beforehand, Kapil and his other former teammates had vowed to donate their pensions for remedy of Gaekwad.
“We are organized to contribute by donating our pension amount if the domestic lets in us to,” Kapil became quoted as saying to Sportstar. “That's a unhappy and with out doubt depressing. I'm in discomfort for that reason of I have played alongside Anshu and should’t bear to peer him in this country. No one should suffer. I understand the Board will take care of him,” he recounted.
“We do not appear to be compelling appropriately everyone. Any guidance for Anshu will come out of your coronary heart. He took blows on his face and chest when standing up to a pair of of the ferocious right away bowlers. Now is the time for us to stand up for him. I'm optimistic our cricket lovers will now not fail him. They need to pray for his recovery,” brought the sixty five-12 months-historic.
What's Your Reaction?
