{"id":301436,"date":"2018-08-16T06:02:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T06:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301436"},"modified":"2018-08-16T06:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T06:02:03","slug":"former-india-captain-ajit-wadekar-passes-away-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-india-captain-ajit-wadekar-passes-away-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Former India captain\u00a0Ajit Wadekar passes away at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301437 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ajit-wad-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/ajit-wad-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/ajit-wad.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Former India captain\u00a0Ajit Wadekar passed away on Wednesday, in Mumbai&#8217;s Jaslok Hospital, due to prolonged illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 77-year-old was born in Mumbai and made his debut in 1966 against West Indies. He had played 37 Tests and scored 2,113 runs at an average of 31.07.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, he appeared in two ODIs. Wadekar also served as India\u2019s manager in the late 1990&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is survived by his wife, two sons, and a daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind paid tributes to former Indian Captain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Ajit Wadekar will be remembered for his rich contribution to Indian cricket. A great batsman &amp; wonderful captain, he led our team to some of the most memorable victories in our cricketing history. He was also respected as an effective cricket administrator. Pained by his demise&#8221;, tweeted by Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSad at the passing of Ajit Wadekar, one of Indian cricket\u2019s finest left-handed batsman and captain during the iconic overseas test victories in 1971 in the Caribbean and England. Condolences to his family and to the cricket fraternity\u201d tweeted by President Ram Nath Kovind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Government of India had honored him with the Arjuna Award in the year 1967, he had also received Padmashri Award, India&#8217;s fourth highest civilian honor in 1972.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India captain\u00a0Ajit Wadekar passed away on Wednesday, in Mumbai&#8217;s Jaslok Hospital, due to prolonged illness. The 77-year-old was born in Mumbai and made his debut in 1966 against West Indies. He had played 37 Tests and scored 2,113 runs at an average of 31.07. Moreover, he appeared in two ODIs. Wadekar also served as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[4155,4156,71,316,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301438,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301436\/revisions\/301438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}