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(From Indian Express)
Chandu Borde at the Poona Club cricket groundCHANDU BORDE, , chairman, national selection committee, Board of Control for Cricket in India, gestures towards the grassy green expanse behind him. ''I owe everything to this place. I was brought up on this ground.'' The quiet of the Poona Club cricket ground is broken only by clicks of bat hitting ball as young boys engage in net practice nearby. The sight of the boys perhaps triggers off memories, for Borde says, ''I was 16 when I first came to play on this ground. I was playing against Poona Club at the time, and it was sportslover Principal N D Nagarwala who saw me playing there and asked if I would join the Poona Club - that was in 1951.'' The tree-fringed circular green turf, the ancient stone edifice of the pavilion, crowned with tiled roofs and bordered with white picket fences, and yes, the pitch ...