Milind Rege, the previous Mumbai commander, passed on from a coronary episode on Wednesday only days in the wake of turning 76. Rege took 126 wickets with his offbreaks in 52 top of the line matches between 1966-67 and 1977-78. He likewise scored 1532 runs at a normal of 23.56 in those games. After his playing vocation, Rege was related with Mumbai Cricket Affiliation (MCA) in different limits, remembering selector and head of selector for isolated stretches. He was one of the Mumbai selectors when a youthful Sachin Tendulkar was added to the Ranji Prize crew in 1988. In 2006, he moved Mumbai's utilization of a video expert in homegrown cricket, one of the earliest to involve the then-youngster device in the game. Rege was additionally Sunil Gavaskar's cherished, lifelong companion. They went to a similar school and a similar school, and the pair likewise played together at Dadar Association Donning Club. "To play for Mumbai, you needed to acquire your cap and battle to hold it," Rege had told in 2017 just before Mumbai's 500th Ranji Prize match. "Vijay Shipper, Madhav Mantri, [Polly] Umrigar and Manohar Hardikar - these men sat on the determination board that picked me. These were not simple selectors, these were monsters of Mumbai cricket. They were all slave drivers, and extraordinary skippers of Mumbai. One disappointment and you were out, so you esteemed each inning. This ethos was followed at each level of the game, particularly in the seriously cutthroat club cricket, one of the traditions of Mumbai cricket." Both the Mumbai and Vidarbha groups in the continuous Ranji Prize semi-last in Nagpur noticed brief's quiet before the beginning of the third day's play in Rege's memory. The Mumbai players, of whom many acquired their five star debuts when he was determination seat, wore dark arm-groups. "Profoundly disheartened to catch wind of the death of Milind Rege sir," MCA president Ajinkya Naik said in an explanation. "A robust of Mumbai cricket, his commitments as a player, selector, and tutor were priceless. His direction formed ages of cricketers, and his heritage will be for all time esteemed. May his spirit find happiness in the hereafter. Genuine sympathies to his family and cherished one." Beginning around 2020, Rege was a consultant at MCA.