Akash Parkar

Mumbai in driver's seat

Siddhesh Lad's strokeful 117 and the bowlers' fine performance put Mumbai in the driver's seat against Odisha at the end of the third day in a Ranji Trophy Group C match with the hosts struggling at 93 for 4 in pursuit of 413 for victory.

Akash Parkar and Jayant Jadhav picked four wickets each to help Air India regain the Times Shield 'A' division title on the third day of the final played at the MIG ground, Bandra, on Wednesday.

Experienced wicket-keeper Aditya Tare will continue to lead the Mumbai team in the absence of regular skipper Suryakumar Yadav, who is playing for India A in New Zealand.

Aggressive batsman Shreyas Iyer has been nominated to lead Mumbai in the Super League stage of the Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy, which begins in Indore on Friday.

Injured pacer Shardul Thakur does not feature in Mumbai's Ranji Trophy squad for their quarter-final match against Karnataka beginning on December 7.

Medium pacer Akash Parkar picked up his maiden five-wicket haul to help Mumbai bundle out a struggling Tripura for a paltry 195 on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Group C league match at the Wankhede stadium on Saturday.

While he fashioned his team’s chase against the Sobo Supersonics on the tournament opener’s first night, on Friday, he slammed a last ball six to earn his team a thrilling win against the Na-Mo Bandra Blasters.

Seamer Akash Parkar took six for 30 to enable Mumbai, who had been skittled out for 160 on the opening day, fight back to restrict Punjab to 132 on Day Two of their Cooch Behar Under-19 semifinal, at the MCA ground in Kandivli, on Monday.

Mumbai registered its first win of the season, thrashing Odisha by 120 runs in a Ranji Trophy Group 'C' match at KIIT Stadium on Saturday. Resuming at the overnight 93 for 4, Odisha capitulated in less than two sessions as Akash Parkar and Dhawal Kulkarni finished with three wickets apiece.

Two dropped catches cost Shivaji Park Lions a cumulative 62 runs and eventually the match. Playing their opening game in the inaugural edition of the T20 Mumbai League, the Lions’ sloppy approach on the field allowed Namo Bandra Blasters to score a matchwinning 182. The Blasters later restricted the Lions to 170 and won by 12 runs.

Mumbai's left-arm orthodox spin bowler Harmeet Singh is all set to lead a 15-member West Zone squad in the Under-19 inter-zonal tournament to be held in Chennai.

Mumbai registered a thumping seven-wicket win over arch rivals Maharashtra in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 West Zone League match on Thursday. For Mumbai, medium pacer Akash Parkar starred with the bowl as he picked up three wickets to help his side bundle out Maharashtra for a meagre 89.

A fine century (132 off 163 balls) by Sujit Nayak helped Tata SC bag the first innings lead against DY Patil B on Day 2 of their Times Shield ‘A’ Division first round match at the DY Patil University ground on Wednesday.

Karnataka inflicted an innings and 20 runs defeat on Mumbai with more than a day to spare in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final on Sunday to move into the semi-finals in convincing fashion.

Batsman Abhishek Nayar was on Wednesday dropped from the Mumbai Ranji Trophy squad for their must-win game against Tripura, beginning from Saturday.

Akash Parkar took seven for 30, to finish with fabulous match figures of 12 for 60, to take Mumbai to the final of the U-19 Cooch Behar Trophy, at the MCA ground in Kandivli, on Tuesday.

Arjun Tendulkar, son of cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and a left-arm pacer, has been named in the 15-member Mumbai squad for the upcoming 'Bapuna Cup' to be held in Nagpur. The squad, to be led by senior pro Suryakumar Yadav, was announced by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) on its website on Monday.

After holding a marathon six-hour meeting on Thursday with eight members of the Apex Council - who had a day earlier written a requisition letter to him to call for an emergent meeting of the Apex Council to discuss and pass eight resolutions in the agenda listed by them - Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) president Vijay Patil did the needful.