A round-up of the third day's play of the Ranji Trophy Super League matches on Saturday.
Mumbai skittled out Punjab for 202 in their first innings before rattling up 90 for 1 in reply, at stumps on the first day of the four-day Ranji Trophy Elite Division Group A match in Mumbai on Thursday. Left-arm pacer Rahil Shaikh led the demolition job with a haul of four for 50.
For Team India, the added incentive to win the Mumbai Test against Sri Lanka, commencing Wednesday, is the top spot in the ICC Test rankings.
A chance to go atop the world rankings at stake, India take on a struggling Sri Lanka in the third and final cricket Test at the Brabourne Stadium on Wednesday hoping to wrap up the series 2-0.
A round-up of the fourth and final day's play of the Ranji Trophy Super League matches on Thursday
A round up of the second day's play of the Ranji Trophy Super League matches on Tuesday.
ICC pitch consultant Andy Atkinson will use a commonly used builders' glue PVA on the pitch for extra binding of the playing rectangle.\n
A game of cricket is not over till a team has actually won it. Gujarat probably forgot this age-old, but always relevant, axiom. For nothing else can explain the team's performance and their anti-climatic one-wicket win over the Railways in the Ranji Trophy Plate Division final at the Brabourne Stadium on Wednesday.
After three dull days that ensured nothing but ennui, the Ranji Trophy Plate Division final between Railways and Gujarat at the Brabourne Stadium suddenly came into life on Tuesday.
Gujarat huffed and puffed their way to a narrow 20-run lead over Railways, riding on a patient innings of 107 from opener Nilesh Modi, on the third day of the five-day Ranji Trophy Plate Division final at the Brabourne Stadium on Monday.
India crushed Australia by seven wickets in the one-off Twenty20 international at the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai on Saturday.
Virender Sehwag replaced Yousuf Pathan in the Indian side for the one-off Twenty20 international, while Murali Kartik came in for all-rounder Joginder Sharma.
In a match that sowed the seeds of dissention in the Indian team, Pakistan's Aqeel Khan thinks he would have always liked to play the fifth rubber against Leander Paes in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania relegation play-off tie in Mumbai in April 2006.
The tourists won the three-day match, ahead of their Duleep Trophy campaign, by 30 runs, at the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai, on Thursday.
The opening day of the Ranji Trophy Plate Division final between Railways and Gujarat at the Brabourne Stadium on Saturday was the story of one man standing tall amongst the ruins.
Rajesh Pawar bowled a devastating spell to capture six wickets as West Zone shot out East for a paltry 171 and then scored 102 for two in reply on the first day of the four-day Duleep Trophy semi-final in Mumbai on Thursday. Mumbai-born Baroda left-arm spinner Pawar triggered a dramatic post-lunch collapse in which East, put in to bat by West, lost wickets in a heap and were bowled out in the second session in 61.3 overs at the Brabourne Stadium.
Saurashtra whipped Maharashtra by seven wickets with 4.3 overs to spare in the inaugural West Zone Twenty20 round robin tournament in Mumbai.
The match against Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai will be played at the Brabourne stadium after criticism of the original venue in Hyderabad.
Rohit Sharma and Manish Pandey hit centuries as India 'A' amassed 382 for 6 against Sri Lanka in the tourists' first warm-up match at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday.
I tried to reason in my mind that wouldn't beating Pakistan again and again -- in the league matches and in the knockouts if they made it -- be a better tribute to our martyred soldiers? A revealing excerpt from Vinod Rai's Not Just A Nightwatchman: My Innings In The BCCI.
The experiment of binding the playing surface at the Brabourne stadium with Poly Vinyl Acetate was commended by both captains and players after Sri Lanka's seven-wicket victory over New Zealand.
A fit-again Rohit Sharma and Manish Pandey slammed strokeful centuries as India A feasted on Sri Lanka's mediocre attack before registering a comfortable 88-run victory in a warm-up match for the visitors ahead of their ODI series against India at the Cricket Club of India (Brabourne Stadium) on Thursday.
The breakdown in communication between national selectors, led by chairman Chetan Sharma, and the team management comprising skipper Virat Kohli over Bengal opener Abhimanyu Easwaran's contentious selection, is not the first such instance in Indian cricket.
Australia's skipper said the dismissal of Chris Gayle was the turning point in the Champions Trophy final.
The Australian captain indicated that all rounder Shane Watson would open the batting with Adam Gilchrist.
Do you agree with Graeme Smith's criticism about the wickets not being of international standard?