Gundappa Vishwanath, who was Aunshumam Gaekwad’s India teammate from 1974-75 to 1979, had planned to visit the blood cancer-stricken Gaekwad in Baroda on August 5, but the end came on Wednesday night.

“I was in England recently when his condition deteriorated. We had planned to go to Baroda to see him and we had booked our air tickets. Nevertheless, we will travel as scheduled, but we won’t be able to see him. It’s pretty frustrating. I will miss him. He was pretty close to us and I don’t know how to console his family,” Vishwanath said from Bangalore on Wednesday.