Makarand Waingankar is an ex-cricket administrator and cricket columnist based in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. He was the CEO of the Baroda Cricket Association

Baroda Cricket Association

Baroda Cricket Association is the governing body of the Cricket activities in the Baroda region in the Gujarat state of India and the Baroda cricket team...

 and served in various positions with other BCCI

Board of Control for Cricket in India

The Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered at Mumbai, is the national governing body for all cricket in India. It's not the apex governing body in India. The board was formed in December 1928 as BCCI replaced Calcutta Cricket Club. BCCI is a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu...

 organs. As consultant to the Karnataka State Cricket Association

Karnataka State Cricket Association

Karnataka State Cricket Association is the governing body of the Cricket in the Indian state of Karnataka. The association is affiliated to the Board of Control for Cricket in India and governs the Karnataka cricket team. The association was founded in the year 1933 and has been affiliated to the...

 in 2001, he set up a Talent Resource Development Wing

Talent Resource Development Wing

The Talent Resource Development Wing was an initiative of the Board of Control for Cricket in India to spot local talent, looking beyond the established cricketing centers...

 (TRDW) to spot talent in rural districts in Karnataka

Karnataka

Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...

, away from the established urban centre of Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

. This initiative was successful, and was replicated nationwide by the BCCI in 2002, when Jagmohan Dalmiya

Jagmohan Dalmiya

Jagmohan Dalmiya, born in Calcutta, India on May 30, 1940, is a well-known Indian cricket administrator. He studied at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta....

 was President. The TRDW Chairman was ex-India test

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 captain Dilip Vengsarkar

Dilip Vengsarkar

Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar is an Indian cricketer and cricket administrator. He was one of the most stylish batsmen of his time, known as one of the foremost exponents of the drive. He was also known by the nickname 'Colonel'....

, assisted by Brijesh Patel

Brijesh Patel

Brijesh Patel grew up in Bangalore is an Indian cricketer who played for the Indian national cricket team as a right-handed batsman from 1974 until 1979....

. The TRDW helped discover many successful players, including present India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. He made his One Day International debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and a year later played his first Test, this time against Sri Lanka.Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC...

, Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan is an Indian cricketer who made his debut for India in late-2003 and was a core member of the national team until a decline in form set in during 2006, forcing him out of the team...

, RP Singh, VRV Singh, and others.

Waingankar was also contracted to set up a TRDW for the Indian Premier League

Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...

 franchise Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders is the franchise representing Kolkata in the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 cricket tournament. Sourav Ganguly led the team in IPL1 and IPL3, Brendon McCullum in IPL2, and Gautam Gambhir in IPL4...

 (KKR) in 2009, the second IPL season

2009 Indian Premier League

The 2009 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL 2 or the 2009 IPL, was the second season of the Indian Premier League, established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2007. The tournament was hosted by South Africa and was played between 18 April and 24 May 2009...

, to spot talent nationwide. However after doing the initial groundwork, he resigned from his position due to strong disagreements with the controversial then KKR coach, John Buchanan

John Buchanan (cricketer)

John Marshall Buchanan is the former coach of the Australia national cricket team and of Kolkata Knight Riders team in the Indian Premier League. John Buchanan is a King's Old Collegian and is also an old boy of The Southport School, located in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia...

, over team selection and John's "multiple captains" theory.
Waingankar also works closely with Dilip Vengsarkar and helped establish the Elf-Vengsarkar Cricket Academy in Bombay. In the late 80s, Bombay's Ranji Trophy

Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides, equivalent to the County Championship in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia...

 team was very strong in batting, but lacked in the bowling department. To counter this, Waingankar played a pivotal role in setting up the BCA-Mafatlal Bowling Scheme in 1990, in which budding bowlers were trained by renowned English fast bowler

Fast bowling

Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...

 Frank Tyson

Frank Tyson

Frank Holmes Tyson is an England cricketer of the 1950s who became a journalist and cricket commentator after he emigrated to Australia in 1960. Nicknamed "Typhoon Tyson" by the press he was regarded by many commentators as one of the fastest bowlers ever seen in cricket and took 76 wickets in...

. Abey Kuruvilla

Abey Kuruvilla

Abey Kuruvilla is a former Indian pace bowler of the mid 1990s.Kuruvilla stood a towering tall and coupled with his broad frame cut an imposing figure on the field....

, Paras Mhambrey

Paras Mhambrey

Paras Laxmikant Mhambrey is a former Indian cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 3 ODIs from 1996 to 1998....

, Sairaj Bahutule

Sairaj Bahutule

Sairaj Bahutule is an Indian cricketer. He is an allrounder who specializes in leg spin bowling....

, and Nilesh Kulkarni

Nilesh Kulkarni

Nilesh Moreshwar Kulkarni is a former Indian cricketer. He is a slow left-arm bowler and left-handed lower order batsman....

 are some of the bowlers who emerged from the academy, many of whom became regular India players through the 1990s.