MUMBAI: In a magnanimous gesture, the Mumbai Cricket Association, on the occasion of Wankhede Stadium's 50th anniversary, on Wednesday rewarded the eight surviving members of the Mumbai team which played the first-ever first-class match at the iconic venue, back in 1974 (Nov 17-19) against Baroda, with Rs 10 lakhs each.
The eight surviving members of that Ashok Mankad-captained team are cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar, Farokh Engineer, Karsan Ghavri, Ajit Pai, Padmalkar Shivalkar, Milind Rege, Abdul Ismail and Rakesh Tandon. Five of the players of that team-Ghavri, Pai, Shivalkar, who arrived for the function on a wheelchair, Rege, Ismail and Tandon were present on the occasion received their cheques from MCA.
