Will the Bengal-Gujarat Ranji Trophy game be played?
Downplaying accusations by critics over the Indian Premier League drought row, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Anurag Thakur, on Wednesday, said that the cricket body is being judged despite of the good work it is doing in the matter.
In the wake of worsening drought situation in Maharashtra, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), on Tuesday, informed the Bombay High Court that recycled sewage water will be used for maintaining pitches for the 17 Indian Premier League matches to be held in Mumbai and Pune.
The Indian team management was miffed with the Wankhede track prepared by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) ground staff for the deciding fifth and final ODI against South Africa which the hosts lost by 214 runs to clinch the series 3-2, in Mumbai, on Sunday.
Mumbai's overwhelming innings and 108-run victory over Hyderabad helped the 37-time winners shoot past fellow-West Zoners Saurashtra and Gujarat and go top of the table with 21 points to their credit. With three teams each from Group 'A' and 'B' qualifying for the quarter-final rounds, Gujarat and Saurashtra 18 points each -- are all set to join Mumbai unless there's a dramatic change in fortunes.
Opener Ravi Teja scored an unbeaten century for Hyderabad but Mumbai were in sight of a huge victory on the third day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Division Group 'A match in Mumbai. Mumbai dismissed Hyderabad for a paltry 251 after posting a first innings total of 602 for 6 declared and then, after making the visitors follow-on, reduced them to 166-4 by close.
Sharad Pawar will be elected unopposed as Mumbai Cricket Association president after BJP leader Gopinath Munde's appeal against the rejection of his application to contest for the top post in Friday's polls was turned down.
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.
Andrew Flintoff belted an unbeaten 85-ball 100 to help England win the opening match of their tour of India with an authoritative 122-run victory over the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) on Sunday.
A state-of-the-art indoor cricket facility was inaugurated on Friday at Bandra-Kurla Complex at Mumbai Cricket Association Indoor Cricket Academy by BCCI and MCA President Sharad Pawar.
Vikhe Patil, who was leader of opposition in the state assembly, resigned from the Congress recently.
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.
Pacer Dhawal Kulkarni scalped a career-best seven-wicket haul to bowl Mumbai to an innings and 108-run victory over Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy Elite Division tie in Mumbai on Friday.
Riding on Mithali Raj's record century, India 'A' defeated their Australian counterparts by 28 runs to take a winning 2-0 lead in the three-match T20 series in Mumbai on Wednesday.
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.
The Mumbai Cricket Association requested the Maharashtra government to allot it a plot of land for building a bigger stadium in the southern part of the metropolis.
There will be no cheerleaders in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the wake of spot-fixing scandal, which rocked the sixth edition of the cash-rich tournament, BCCI vice-president Ravi Savant said.
The tickets for Sachin Tendulkar's final and 200th Test match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai will be sold online from Monday, the Mumbai Cricket Association announced.
Test cricket is all set to return after a long gap of 35 years to the Cricket Club of India's Brabourne Stadium.
BCCI president Sharad Pawar expressed his deep sorrow at the passing away of former Test batsman Dilip Sardesai.
The tickets for the Indian Premier League semi-final matches, to be held at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on May 30 and 31, are going to cost the cricket fans dear with the rates fixed between Rs 1000 and Rs 12000 for most stands barring the popular East Lower. This is double the amount the fans paid for the matches during the league stages.
The BCCI president faced no opposition from any quarter for his re-election to the post of Mumbai Cricket Association president.
Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli figure among the list of probables declared on Monday.
While Karsan Ghavri continues to be the overall coach.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said ideally the Indian Premier League matches should be shifted elsewhere, where there is no water crisis.
Dilip Vengsarkar is set to take over as India's chief selector from Kiran More.
The Bombay Hockey Association ,in turn, wants help to relocate its own premises within the Churchgate railway station periphery.
The Mumbai Cricket Association's scheduled meeting to discuss implications of the Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha committee report was postponed on Monday due to the indisposition of MCA president Sharad Pawar.
The list of authorised representatives of affiliate units for the 76th AGM of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, released by the election observer T S Krishnamurthy.
Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan and Wasim Jaffer will turn out for Mumbai against Maharashtra in the Elite Group 'B' match.
Former India captain Ajit Wadekar underwent an angioplasty for a major blockage of artery and is recuperating at a city hospital in Mumbai.
Mumbai schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade etched his name in the annuls of local cricketing history when he scored a staggering unbeaten 652 runs from just 199 balls in an inter-school cricket tournament organised by the Mumbai Cricket Association on Monday.
The Mumbai Cricket Association vehemently denied allegations against its functioning by Chandrakant Pandit and Sairaj Bahutule
Cricket Association of Bengal president Sourav Ganguly along with Mumbai Cricket Association joint Secretary Dr PV Shetty are the two erstwhile Indian Premier League governing council members deemed eligible to attend Monday's auctions, but the former captain is not going to be present.
Prashant Dhanawade was lost for words initially when asked about his son Pranav's record-breaking cricketing feat. The 15-year-old became the first batsman to aggregate more than 1,000 runs in an innings in any format of the game when he scored 1009 runs for Smt. KC Gandhi School (Kalyan) against Arya Gurukul School in the HT Bhandari Cup inter-school cricket tournament, organised by the Mumbai Cricket Association.
The former opening batsman joined as DOC in December last year following the suspension of CEO Thabang Moroe and has since signed a two-year deal with the option of extending for a third term.
The test would take place in the presence of Andrew Leipus and selection committee chairman Kiran More.
Sharad Pawar resigned from BCCI's Marketing Committee, a move that could destabilise the recent uneasy truce among rival factions
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