Former Bengal women's cricket coach Tapan Banerjee passed away on Monday morning after a prolonged illness, Cricket Association of Bengal said. He was 73. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. A right-hand batsman and a medium pacer, all-rounder Banerjee represented East Zone. He coached senior women's Bengal side to Inter-Zonal champion in 2010-11. Leading wicket-taker in women's ODI, Jhulan Goswami remembered her former coach whom she fondly called "handsome evergreen boy". "He was the only coach who told us to 'eat sweets, it won't harm'. He always brought sweets for us at the dinner table and kept us in cheerful mood,"
she said. Banerjee suffered a cerebral attack a few months back and on Sunday night he slipped into coma. He breathed his last around 11 am,
said a CAB official.