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He was born in Vadodara, Gujarat in 1961.
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Sanjay Hazare
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Hazare played 48 First-class matches and six List A matches for Baroda between 1981 and 1998. He is currently a cricket umpire, who has umpired five One Day Internationals, one Twenty20 International match and 16 Indian Premier League matches. He was dropped from the IPL 2014 following his not-out decision on Pieterson against Rajasthan
He has served as a television umpire in three Test matches, and has been a reserve umpire in one test match.
He has also acted as a television umpire in 12 ODIs and in one T20I. And as reserve umpire in one ODI. International Cricket Council (Interstate Commerce Commission) made him a part of the International Panel of Interstate Commerce Commission Umpires on 2 August 2009.
Samarjitsinh Gaekwad, the then vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), said, "Hazare has a good umpiring record and his name was discussed during the meet of umpires committee of BCCI. He was selected considering his talent and we are proud to have an international umpire with us now." About his selection, Hazare said,"lieutenant is due to the efforts of senior Baroda Cricket Association (Bank Central Asia) officials that I made it to the panel," adding,"I have been conveyed about my selection by Bank Central Asia authorities, but I am yet to receive official letter from BCCI." However the BCCI didn"t recommended his name for the 2011 cricket season, citing his performance, which was evaluated by the match referees of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
