Officials 'disappointed' as major cricket centres miss out on staging ODI World Cup games
Pranav Dhanawade, the 16-year-old wonder boy, who became the first batsman in the world to score 1000 runs in one innings, has once again made it to the headlines after being detained for a slight delay in vacating the ground he had been practicing on for years.
The Cricket Board will pay Mumbai Cricket Association around Rs 23 crore as its "contribution" to the affiliated unit's "cricket development" purposes, in lieu of lease rent for occupying its premises at Cricket Centre inside the Wankhede Stadium complex.
Mumbai's Ranji Trophy campaign received a shot in the arm with the availability of Sachin Tendulkar for their quarter final game against Baroda in Mumbai from January 6-10.
Last year, MP's Ashutosh Sharma smashed an 11-ball fifty, breaking Yuvraj Singh's record for the fastest half-century by an Indian in T20 cricket.
The Mumbai Cricket Association, including its president Sharad Pawar, will not to attend any matches of the third edition of the Indian Premier League, which kicks-off in Mumbai, on Friday. MCA joint-secretary Lalchand Rajput said the association was not given any passes for the mega event and hence decided not to attend any games, including the opening ceremony.
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who has been slapped with a five-year ban by the MCA on entering the Wankhede grounds in Mumbai refused to be drawn into the issue of whether would tender an apology to the cricket body.
Mumbai Cricket Association officials have lodged a police complaint against Kolkata Knight Riders franchise team co-owner Shah Rukh Khan for his alleged misbehaviour on Wednesday night at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium and decided to ban him for life from entering the premises.
Key issues facing the game will be discussed when the ICC's Cricket Committee - Management meets at the CCI on September 18-19.
The resignations of former India cricketers Balwinder Singh Sandhu and Nilesh Kulkarni from Mumbai Cricket Association's recommendatory body for development of the game, CIC, do not constitute a crisis, according to MCA president Ravi Savant.
Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar has submitted his resignation as vice president of the Mumbai Cricket Association following the Supreme Court order of January 2. "In view of the Honourable Supreme Court order dated 2nd January 2017, I hereby tender my resignation for the post of Vice President of the association," said the ex-chief selector in a short letter addressed to the MCA on Tuesday.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council will meet on November 17 at the Mumbai Cricket Association's Recreation Centre at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai, a Cricket Board official said.
Former BCCI president Sourav Ganguly will be returning as Director of Cricket with the Delhi Capitals during IPL 2023 starting in April, sources said.
"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."
MCA treasurer Ravi Savant, on Friday, defeated Prof Ratnakar Shetty by 10 votes to five to take over the reins of the Mumbai Cricket Association as its interim president in place of Vilasrao Deshmukh, who passed away early this month.
Munaf Patel's five-wicket haul went in vain as table toppers Mumbai Indians produced a spineless batting display and slumped to a humiliating 76-run defeat at the hands of Kings XI Punjab in an Indian Premier League match in Mohali on Tuesday.
The stocky all-rounder, who signed a two-year contract with the Rajasthan Cricket Association, said his former teammate and long-time friend Hrishikesh Kanitkar was instrumental in him making the switch.
Mumbai Indians will open their title defence at home against new entrants Rising Pune Supergiants to kick-start the 2016 Indian Premier League on April 9.
An MCA source maintained that the Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner had not apologised directly to the association, but pointed out that at least the actor had conceded that he had not behaved properly.
Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has decided to stage the inaugural Ranji Trophy match at the refurbished Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on November 24 between defending champions Mumbai and Assam in the Elite League.
Nayar comes with a high reputation as a sharp cricket mind and a lifestyle/motivational coach who have worked with the likes of Dinesh Karthik and Rinku Singh.
The Indian Premier League's Governing Council will meet in Mumbai on January 5 to discuss details of the player auctions, on January 8-9 in Bangalore.
'Indian hockey will lose out on one of its most important nurseries of good hockey talent.'
The Mumbai Cricket Association will not take any action against India discard Ajit Agarkar for returning home in a huff after being dropped from Mumbai's team against Orissa in the Ranji Trophy Elite match at Cuttack, since he had taken permission.
Young pacer Dhaval Kulkarni, the under-19 cricketer who played for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League, on Wednesday became the first recipient of the Dilip Sardesai Scholarship. As the winner of the scholarship, established in memory of the late Test batsman by the Mumbai Cricket Association, Kulkarni will visit Australia for a six-week training stint at the Australian Cricket Academy and the expenses for his trip will be borne by the MCA.
The media box at the Wankhede stadium, Mumbai will be named after the late Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray, Mumbai Cricket Association announced.
Senior BCCI official Ratnakar Shetty, who was on Tuesday banned for five years by the Mumbai Cricket Association, slammed the decision saying it is a personal vendetta and vowed to challenge it legally.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan got into an ugly spat with the Mumbai Cricket Association officials at the end of the IPL match between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders in Mumbai, on Wednesday.
Jay Shah, son of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, will continue as BCCI secretary for his second consecutive term.
In the eye of storm for returning home after being excluded from playing XI against Orissa, veteran pacer Ajit Agarkar has made himself unavailable for Mumbai's next encounter against Saurashtra at Rajkot starting from December 6.
The second warm-up game of the England on their forthcoming tour to India has been shifted from the Mumbai Cricket Association's Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) ground to D Y Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai.
Sunil Gavaskar has returned to head the Mumbai Cricket Association's Cricket Improvement Committee after a decade's absence from any activities connected with his cricketing alma mater.
Shah Rukh Khan talks to Patcy N about the Kolkata Knight Riders victory and all the controversy that he is groped in.
Union Minister and Mumbai Cricket Association president Vilasrao Deshmukh has said that the decision to ban actor Shah Rukh Khan from entering Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium for five years had been conveyed to BCCI, and 'let it consider it'.
Former ICC and BCCI president Sharad Pawar said politics should not be brought into sports and the administrators' only aim should be to help sportsperson and provide them the best of facilities.
'Coaching at a professional level is incredibly exciting for me and is something I'm truly passionate about as a new chapter in my life. Hopefully, the breadth of my experiences as a player can contribute to the development of the group and bring added value.'
The Mumbai Cricket Association's Managing Committee on Tuesday decided to contact the family of late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and seek their consent to name the media box at the Wankhede Stadium after him.
Ankeet Chavan, who is serving a life ban for his alleged involvement in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal, has urged the BCCI and the Mumbai Cricket Association to reduce the sanction to seven years in a letter written to them. In 2013, the BCCI disciplinary committee had found three Rajasthan Royals players -- former India pacer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Chavan and Ajit Chandila -- guilty of spot- fixing in the IPL and handed them life bans.
Unless India performs very well at the T20 World Cup, it could be curtains for chairman of selectors Chetan Sharma.
The Wankhede stadium finally threw its door open on Sunday. Understandably, there was a huge media gathering as officials took scribes around the renovated stands, newly-built players' dressing room, press box and various other facilities.
