Jhulan Goswami to deliver Dilip Sardesai memorial lecture

Jhulan Goswami

The Dilip Sardesai Memorial Lecture returns after a COVID-related interruption and it's breaking new ground. This year it will be a woman cricketer - Jhulan Goswami - who will deliver the lecture at the Cricket Club of India on December 27.

Jhulan, who recently retired from international cricket, follows a string of cricket legends like Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Bishan Singh Bedi, who went behind the microphone to honour Sardesai.

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Apart from being one of the most helpful of former cricketers to young players and the media (this diarist never got a ‘no comments' utterance from him), Sardesai's interest in all levels of cricket was huge. The recent sacking of the national cricket selection committee by the BCCI - albeit in a strange way - reminds us that the best men for the job are not always picked as national selectors. Dilip Narayan Sardesai is a fine example!