MS Dhoni To Sourav Ganguly: How Ratan Tata Helped Some Of India’s Greatest Cricketers
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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Ratan Tata passed away at the age of 86.
- He is considered one of the greatest ever industrialists.
- He also helped shape some of India’s greatest cricketers including MS Dhoni and Sourav Ganguly.
Ratan Tata, one of India’s greatest ever industrialists, breathed his last at the age of 86 in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on October 9, 2024. He has been one of the most influential figures in modern Indian history, and took keen interest in a variety of subjects including sports. He also had a great interest in cricket, and in fact, helped shape the career of some of the greatest Indian cricketers including the likes of MS Dhoni and Sourav Ganguly.
Ratan Tata, through the multiple companies that falls under the umbrella of the Tata Group, has time and again, employed several cricketers to provide them finanial stability and an oppportunity to concentrate on their cricket solely without worrying abou financial burdens.
In fact, three former India captains too have been employed by the Tata Group. Sourav Ganguly has been employed with Tata Steel, MS Dhoni with Indian Airlines and Dilip Vengsarkar with Tata Power.
Here is a list of cricketers who were employed by the Tata Group
- MS Dhoni (Indian Airlines)
- Sourav Ganguly (Tata Steel)
- Dilip Vengsarkar (Tata Power)
- Farokh Engineer (Tata Motors),
- Mohinder Amarnath (Air India)
- Javagal Srinath (Indian Airlines),
- Sanjay Manjrekar (Air India)
- Kiran More (TSC)
- Rusi Surti (IHCL)
- Sandeep Patil (Tata Oil Mills)
- VVS Laxman (Indian Airlines)
- Yuvraj Singh (Indian Airlines)
- Harbhajan Singh (Indian Airlines)
- Suresh Raina (Air India)
- Robin Uthappa (Air India)
- Mohammed Kaif (Indian Airlines)
- Nikhil Chopra (Indian Airlines)
- Irfan Pathan (Air India)
- RP Singh (Air India)
- Dinesh Mongia (Indian Airlines)
- Ajit Agarkar (Tata Steel)
- Rohan Gavaskar (Tata Power),
- Ramesh Powar (Tata Power)
- Shardul Thakur (Tata Power)
- Jayant Yadav (Air India)
- Jhulan Goswami (Air India)
Sourav Ganguly, former captain and one of the cricketers who were benefitted by the Tata Group, shared an emotional post on his Facebook account giving a fitting tribute to the enigma that was Ratan Tata.
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