NEW DELHI: Veteran pacer Dhawal Kulkarni suddenly got an opportunity to play his 96th and final first-class match after Mohit Avasthi was ruled out of Mumbai's Ranji Trophy final against Vidarbha due to injury on Sunday.
For this entire Ranji season, all Dhawal Kulkarni, who had earlier announced that this would be his farewell season, had done, besides playing three matches in which he took seven wickets, was bowl in the nets, besides 'mentoring' other seamers.