Milind Rege the former Mumbai cricket captain and chief selector, was accorded a grand farewell at the Shivaji Park crematorium on Thursday with numerous first-class cricketers making it to his funeral. Rege, 76, passed away on Wednesday morning.

Ex-India captains Diana Edulji and Dilip Vengsarkar were present to witness the final rites alongwith erstwhile Test players Ajit Pai, Karsan Ghavri, Yajurvindra Singh, Suru Nayak, Chandrakant Pandit, Raju Kulkarni, Sanjay Manjrekar, Abey Kuruvilla, Nilesh Kulkarni and Sanjay Bangar.