Sandeep Patil, the former World Cup winner and India head coach, has been cleared to contest for the post of president in the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) election, to be held on October 14.
Patil will be one of the four eligible candidates whose forms were accepted by the electoral officer J.S. Saharia after scrutinising the documents. The other three in the fray are Ashish Shelar, Amol Kale and incumbent secretary Sanjay Naik.
On Tuesday, Naik objected to Patil’s candidature on the basis of his conflict-of-interest complaint against the cricketer. Naik had cited Patil’s close relation with Salil Ankola (Patil’s son Chirag has married Ankola’s daughter Sana) is the chairman of Mumbai’s senior men’s selection committee.
