PUNE, April 11: Avinash Ghatpande of Youngsters Cricket Club along with two others — Sanjay Date of Income Tax Sports Club and Sunil Gudge representing State Bank of India — have been unanimously elected Maharashtra Cricket Association’s (MCA) managing committee members for a three-year term (1999 to 2001).
In the biennial elections held late last evening at the MCA office, Nehru Stadium, Avinash Ghatpande bagged 23 votes out of a possible 29 while Sanjay Date and Sunil Gudge received 20 and 11 respectively. The other three in the fray — Hemant Kanitkar (Metro Club), Prabhakar More (United Sports Club) and Milind Gunjal (Telco) — received 10, 9 and 6 votes respectively. Only 30 club representatives turned out to cast ballots out of which one vote was declared invalid.