He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.

Kotnis, who had covered several international cricket assignments besides the 1982 Asian Games in Delhi and the 1988 Seoul Olympics, combined his journalistic career and stint in MCA cricket administration side by side for nearly two decades.

Starting his stint in sports journalism with the Free Press Journal here in the early sixties, Kotnis switched over to sports magazine Sportsweek and its sister publication, the evening paper Mid-Day and was connected with these two publications for more than fifteen years.

Kotnis, who was MCA's treasurer for four years around the time Reliance hosted the World Cup in 1987, moved over Afternoon Despatch and Courier, where he worked for six years.