Tauqir, 43, is a middle-order batsman and offspinner who has played 32 List A games, including five ODIs, in a ten-year career. He has taken 34 wickets in these games, at 29.05, and scored 223 ...

Tauqir's eldest son is 11, and lives with his mother at Mira Road. Until 2001, everything was fine. Tauqir had got another rented flat for his family and they lived there, added Solkar.

Tauqir, who had already made it clear that if the president asked him to continue he wouldn't be able to say no, reiterated that stance. "The president has told me to continue and I can't refuse ...