Amol Jungade

For the last few years, Vidarbha have played the shorter format better than the longer one.They have won the Central Zone Vijay Hazare One-day championship twice in the last five years.

Sumit Ruikar's 4/23 and Gaurav Upadhyaya's 20-ball 47 helped Vidarbha beat ITC by seven wickets to enter the semifinal of Maharaj Padam Singh tournament.

The Vidarbha Cricket Association has declared the team for the Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 Zonal (Central Zone) Cricket tournament scheduled to be played at Indore from March 24 to 29.

Executive XI openers Akshay Kolhar (68) and Anup Fulper (33) batted brilliantly to steer Executive XI to a seven-wicket victory over President XI in the Twenty20 trial tournament match at the VCA Jamtha ground on Saturday.

Subroto Bannerjee, a bowling coach in VCA's Residential Academy, has been instrumental in shaping seamer like Umesh Yadav.

After a successful stint in the Central Zone Under-19 Vinoo Mankad Trophy, Akshay Wadkar was on a high. After all, he had done well against all the oppositions and shown the promise.

Sitting on the either side of the sight screen, two coaches-Usman Ghani and Biju George gave opposite reactions as soon as Amol Jungade castled Rohan Prem with a beauty in the last over of the day.

Bowlers, normally, don't have much say in Twenty20 but Vidarbha-Rajasthan tie was different.

In perfect batting conditions, generally it's the team that bowls slightly better comes up triumphs.

Before the start of the fourth and final day, Uttar Pradesh had a choice whether to inforce follow-on and go for an outright win against Vidarbha or settle for three points.

A double century by Cheteshwar Pujara enabled Indian Oil declare their innings at 449 for six against Western Railway 'B' on the second day of the three day Times Shield 'A' division league.

The Vidarbha selectors have showed faith in the youngsters for the shorter format, including as many as four new faces in the squad for the Central Zone Vijay Hazare One-day tournament in Jaipur.

As the Himachal innings finished, Sandeep Singh (22-6-50-4) gave his junior partner Amol Jungade (15.1-2-67-5) a pat on the back and promptly allowed him to lead the team off the field.

With Sulakshan Kulkarni opting for high-profile Mumbai job, the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) has began the search for its seventh coach in nine years.

BPCL defeated DY Patil 'A' by ten wickets on the third and final day at the latter's home ground in Nerul on Wednesday.

Losing isn't such a bad thing if one is ready to learn from mistakes.For the last ten years, Vidarbha kept repeating the same mistakes and as a result they remained in the Plate group for nine years.

Aniruddha Chore superb form continued on Thursday too as the in-form batsman slammed an unbeaten 81 to steer Ruby Sporting Club to post a comfortable 77-run win over Reshimbag Krida Mandal in the Guzder League T20 tournament.

Ex-India pacer Subroto Bannerjee and his employers Vidarbha Cricket Association have decided to part ways. Bannerjee joined the VCA's Residential Academy four years ago.

With three former Indian players - Bahutule, Badani and SS Das - in Vidarbha's ranks now, Ranjit Paradkar may lose his captaincy despite doing a decent job last year.

The trainer of Vidarbha Cricket Association Residential Academy's Suhas Pawar has resigned from his post recently to rejoin his home state team Baroda.

Much like both Kumars, Vidarbha pacer Siddhesh Neral too has the ability to move the ball both ways. While he was little raw last year, he has been a revelation this season for Vidarbha.

The recognized district associations of the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) have expressed their unhappiness towards the step-motherly treatment being meted out to them.

Different opposition, different venue and different nature of wicket, but the challenge remain the same for Vidarbha.

Railways' Amit Paunikar thrashed Vidarbha and scored a belligerent unbeaten 150 (156b;13x4;6x6) out of Railways' 242-6 but still ended up on the losing side.

The recognized district associations of the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) have expressed their unhappiness towards the step-motherly treatment being meted out to them.

Wankhede single-handedly took Bapuna XI to the innings lead, which virtually assures them the title in the Bapuna Cup Ranji Trophy selection trials.

There have been sea changes in Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) after the elections last month.

It was so close yet so far for Vidarbha yet again.Hyderabad finished the Plate semifinal on 486-8 well short of host's first innings score of 531.

The Vidarbha success has been the talk of the town. The players did a fantastic job on the field but the ones, who also made vital contributions, hardly get a mention. TOI tries to track down the contribution of support staff members of Vidarbha team.