Madhav Apte
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A brief biography
Nitin Naik , Sep 25, 2019: The Times of India
Madhav Apte was a former India opener turned successful entrepreneur and Mumbai stalwart.
Why he played only seven Tests between 1952-53 despite averaging 49.27, including a match-saving and defiant 163 against West Indies in Port of Spain, will always remain a mystery. Why the axe came immediately after that tour to West Indies which featured an attack boasting of Sonny Ramadhin, Alf Valentine and Frank King, and after notching up scores of 64, 52, 64, 9, 0, 163*, 30, 30, 15 and 33 makes his case even more curious.
Despite the snub, Apte never made his bitterness public (he wrote about it in his autobiography As Luck Would Have It though) and all he would say about it was “In those days, there was a bit of politics”. Coming from an affluent business family, the Elphinstone College-educated Apte played 17 seasons of First Class cricket for Mumbai and Bengal and also served as president of the Cricket Club of India. He was also an avid badminton player and 15-time National badminton champion Nandu Natekar was his hitting partner for several years.
As President of the CCI, he was responsible for changing the rules of the club to allow a 15-year-old Sachin Tendulkar to play for them.
