Former Test stumper Sameer Dighe was on Friday named as the new coach of the Mumbai Ranji Trophy team for next season.
Mumbai's Dabbawalas (lunchbox carriers) will add a flavour of cricketing love to their daily delivery of lunchboxes for their respective clientele during ICC World Twenty20 India 2016. All Dabbawalas will, for a period of 2 weeks wear ICC WT20 branded T-shirts as they go about delivering approximately 50,000 lunchboxes. A handout of the complete tournament schedule will be provided along with each. Once the tournament enters the Super 10 stage, a contingent of 25 Dabbawalas wearing branded ICC WT20 topis (traditional Indian caps) and waistcoats will add to the crowd strength for three of the matches scheduled to be played in Mumbai. The activity was lauded and set underway by former Indian cricketers Sameer Dighe and Diana Edulji, who met with Yamanji S. Ghule, President of Mumbai Dabbawala Association at the Wankhede Stadium.
When the police conducted a probe into it, a mega fraud worth over Rs 16,180 crore came to light, the official said quoting the FIR.
The others on the MCA selection panel, headed by Vengsarkar, are former Mumbai skipper Milind Rege, former off-spinner Kiran Mokashi and ex-pacer Abey Kuruvilla.
Ajinkya Rahane and his Mumbai teammate Suryakumar Yadav went under the hammer for Rs 7 lakh each.
It was also decided that a pool of 20 players will be rotated till the 2023 World Cup.
The Indian cricketers wore black armbands on the opening day of the fourth and final Test against Australia in Sydney as a mark of respect for Sachin Tendulkar's coach Ramakant Achrekar who passed away on Wednesday.
Sachin Tendulkar's coach, Ramakant Achrekar, has died aged 86.
The film, which traces Sachin Tendulkar's evolution as one of the greatest cricketers of all times, will release on May 26.
The other members of selection committee are Sanjay Patil, Ravindra Thaker, Zulfiqar Parkar and Ravi Kulkarni.
Sachin Tendulkar was among the many who paid their last respects to the cricketer, coach-manager and administrator.
Former India wicketkeeper Chandrakant Pandit was chosen as the coach of the Mumbai Ranji Trophy team.
On the occasion of 'Guru Purnima' on Sunday, the students fondly recalled the contribution of their mentor Ramakant Achrekar, fondly called 'Achrekar Sir'.
Batting great Sachin Tendulkar and Dilip Vengsarkar are among 39 international players eligible to vote in the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) elections, scheduled to be held in Mumbai on October 4.
Former India pacer Venkatesh Prasad, off-spinner Ashish Kapoor and left-arm spinner Maninder Singh are some of the prominent names that are doing rounds for the national selectors post after the BCCI completed its interview process on Tuesday.
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and former India batsmen Vinod Kambli and Pravin Amre on Thursday fondly recalled the memories of their childhood coach Ramakant Achrekar at a condolence meeting in Mumbai.
Vaibhav Gehlot, son of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, was elected president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) as his panel swept all six posts in a tension-ridden election of the state body.
"The granting of the Freedom of the City of London recognises how they have added their voices to the growing global movement to stamp out racism."
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However, the hosts cannot be complacent and need to go all out with guns blazing when they take the field in the four-day match at the Wankhede Stadium.
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