NAGPUR: Vidarbha opener Atharva Taide was offered three contracts from as many clubs in the UK after he emerged as the top run-getter (1,170 runs) in the ECB Northern League (Division-1) in September 2021. Though the contracts were better than the existing one with Lancaster CC, his coach Umesh Patwal told Taide to come back home without signing any deal.
Patwal, the former Afghanistan batting consultant, was confident that the 21-year-old will make it big this season and land up with an IPL contract, which will automatically give him lucrative deal in the UK for the next season.