retired from international cricket at the age of 34, although he continued to play first class cricket. His last first-class game was the 1967–68 Ranji Trophy final between Bombay and Madras. Apte is the only cricket player to have played alongside D. B. Deodhar and Sachin Tendulkar. In 1989, he became the president of the Cricket Club of India and awarded Tendulkar playing membership, and in 2016, argued that the Cricket Club of India was a founding member of the Board of Control for Cricket in India after the controversial Lodha Committee report proposed to consign the club as an associate member of the Board, and thus taking away the voting rights of the former's members as part of the reformation process at the latter. He was the president of the club's Legends Club, and in 2014, urged the club to make the Anandji Dossa reference library available to the public. In December 1983, Apte was selected to become the Sheriff of Mumbai. In 2011, he inaugurated the 26th Sportstar Trophy. In 2015, at the age of 82, he published his autobiography titled As Luck Would Have It at Wankhede Stadium at the hands of Sunil Gavaskar. In business, Apte served as the president of the Mumbai Chamber of Commerce. He served as the chairman of the Apte Group. Personal life Apte's younger brother Arvind Apte, also played first-class cricket for Bombay, Rajasthan and Indian Universities. While his son, Vaman Apte represented India in squash and Mumbai University in cricket, and his daughter was an inter-school badminton champion. He died at the Breach Candy Hospital on the morning of 23 September 2019 aged 86. Publications References 1932 births 2019 deaths India Test cricketers Indian cricketers Mumbai cricketers Bengal cricketers Indian Universities cricketers West Zone cricketers Cricketers from Mumbai Sheriffs of Mumbai