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New Delhi<\/strong>: In a noble gesture, the BCCI on Sunday decided to release Rs 1 crore for the treatment of former India coach Anshuman Gaikwad, who is battling blood cancer at a medical facility in London.<\/p>\n BCCI\u2019s decision has come following emotional appeals for support from former captain Kapil Dev and Sandip Patil, who had enjoined the cricket board to help Gaikwad.<\/p>\n \u201cMr Jay Shah has instructed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to release Rs 1 crore with immediate effect to provide financial assistance to India\u2019s veteran cricketer Mr Anshuman Gaekwad, who is battling cancer,\u201d BCCI apex council said in a statement.<\/p>\n Gaekwad, son of former India captain D K Gaekwad, is undergoing treatment for blood cancer at the King\u2019s College Hospital in London.<\/p>\n \u201cShah has also spoken to Mr Gaekwad\u2019s family to take stock of the situation and extend support. The board stands by Gaekwad\u2019s family in this hour of crisis and will do whatever is essential for Mr Gaekwad\u2019s quick recovery,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n \u201cThe BCCI will continue to monitor Mr Gaekwad\u2019s progress and is confident that he will come out of this phase strongly,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n The 71-year-old Gaekwad played 40 Tests and 15 ODIs for India between 1975 and 1987.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New Delhi: In a noble gesture, the BCCI on Sunday decided to release Rs 1 crore for the treatment of former India coach Anshuman Gaikwad, who is battling blood cancer at a medical facility in London. BCCI\u2019s decision has come following emotional appeals for support from former captain Kapil Dev and Sandip Patil, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/th-10.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34948,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34946\/revisions\/34948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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