Rajdeep Sardesai, the son of late cricketer Dilip, made an interesting point in his ‘vote of thanks’ at yesterday’s Dilip Sardesai Memorial Lecture delivered by Ravi Shastri: “It must have been another world… and I don’t think that world, in some ways sadly, exists today,” said Rajdeep after telling the gathering how the great Vinoo Mankad offered Dilip a P J Hindu Gymkhana membership after merely watching him bat in an inter-collegiate match at the Kennedy Sea Face club.

Dilip Sardesai