Sandeep Patil, who in this newspaper on July 2, urged the BCCI to come forward and help Aunshuman Gaekwad with his massive medical expenditure needed to combat blood cancer, had hoped that his July 13 FaceTime conversation with his former teammate wouldn’t be the last.

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