Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has returned a authorities plot allotted to him in Mumbai 33 years in the past to arrange a cricket academy, an official from the Maharashtra housing company MHADA mentioned on Wednesday.

State Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad had final yr expressed displeasure over Gavaskar not utilising the plot in suburban Bandra, the place a cricket academy was proposed, even after 30 years of the allotment.

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Gavaskar has now returned the plot to the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) after the latter’s eight-month-long deliberations and conferences with companions of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi within the state, the official mentioned.

Awhad additionally confirmed that Gavaskar had written a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, informing that he couldn’t arrange a cricket academy on the Bandra plot given to him years in the past.

Earlier, Gavaskar together with batting legend Sachin Tendulkar had approached Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray with a plan to develop the academy, however it didn’t materialise.

The MHADA, which comes beneath Awhad’s ministry, had requested Gavaskar to return the unused plot.

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