While frontline worker Dr Asheem Gupta's demise had already left a pall of gloom among the Delhi cricketing circles, the sudden demise of coach Sanjay Dobhal sent the Delhi cricket world in a tizzy.
Senior anaesthesiologist and professor Dr Asheem Gupta, who was also at the forefront of Covid battle at LNJP hospital was a cricket enthusiast and the official designated doctor for all IPL and international matches at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium for several years and also consulted on the medical requirements of the DDCA.
Just after that Dobhal, former off spinner and a popular coach passed away in the morning. Dobhal, who ran MRV Academy in Dwarka, was 53 and was on ventilator support for over a week.
Only Sunday, former Indian cricketers Gautam Gambhir, Aakash Chopra, Amit Bhandari and several Delhi cricketers like Mithun Manhas actively asked for plasma donors to save their friend. By evening AAP MLA Dilip Pandey also informed through his twitter handle that plasma donor has been found but it was too late.
Dobal is survived by his wife and two children, both of who are stil playing age group cricket in Delhi. Meanwhile, Dr Gupta's death was met with similar shock in the medical fraternity. His wife, who had also tested positive with Dr Gupta, came back negative in her second test.
Dr Gupta was at the forefront of the battle against Covid at the LNJP hospital which saw maximum influx of patients.
Several DDCA officials, including former BCCI president CK Khanna, leading cricketers both past and present expressed their condolences over Dobal's untimely death.
— Tanmay Srivastava (@srivastavtanmay) June 29, 2020