Shastri’s Mumbai and India teammates Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar, India’s T20 World Cup-winning captain Suryakumar Yadav, and ex-India women’s team skipper Diana Edulji were also on the dias along with MCA president Ajinkya Naik

Deshpande, 30, nicknamed the Kalyan Express, has featured in two T20Is so far, and Kulkarni reckoned Deshpande can stage a comeback to the national side