Kulkarni, who played three Tests in the 1980s, advised youngsters to “be grateful and not to take things for granted.”

Shastri’s Mumbai and India teammates Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar, India’s T20 World Cup-winning captain Suryakumar Yadav, and ex-India women’s team skipper Diana Edulji were also on the dias along with MCA president Ajinkya Naik