Political heavyweight Ashish Shelar has formally thrown his hat into the ring for returning as the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) president. While Shelar filed his nomination papers on Monday, the last day of filing nominations for the October 20 election, along with a spree of political leaders across parties, the voters were left confused.
While Shelar’s faction claimed to have formed an alliance with the former Sharad Pawar Group, the erstwhile Sharad Pawar Group rebranded itself as Mumbai Cricket Group and reaffirmed its stand of contesting the election with former India allrounder and coach Sandeep Patil as the candidate for the president’s post.
The candidature of Shelar - who was the president for two years from 2016 - and his alliance with Pawar was expected with the veteran leader and administrator having been nominated as a representative of a club owned by Shelar.
