Ranjan Baindoor, former Bombay Ranji Trophy allrounder, passed away here on Monday morning. Baindoor was 60. “He’s my colleague at Tata Steel; I used to see him almost daily for 35 years. He retired last October. He collapsed in the toilet of a massive heart attack. He was scheduled to go for angiography roday ," said Milind Rege, former Bombay allrounder and currently the Chairman of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) Ranji Trophy and under-23 selection committee. Baindoor was the chairman of the MCA under-19 selection committee.
Baindoor underwent a prostrate operation last January, but still travelled to see the Mumbai under-19 team in action against Uttar Pradesh in the Cooch Behar Trophy final at the Sachin Tendulkar Gymkhana at Kandivali.
Baindoor played four matches for Railways in 1974-75 and 12 matches (267 runs & 19 wkts) for Bombay from 1975-76 to 1983-84. He was in the Sunil Gavaskar led Ranji Trophy winning Bombay against Delhi in 1983-84. After being hit on his right hand in the second innings, Baindoor, did not bowl and thereafter he retired from first class cricket.
