Amol Kale

Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) brings Amol Kale's mortal remains to Wankhede Stadium for final respects. The funeral at Santacruz Hindu Crematorium. Antim Darshan at Pali Hill, Bandra. Tributes by Sachin Tendulkar, BCCI, and Jay Shah.

The Mumbai Cricket Association will bring Amol Kale's mortal remains to the Wankhede Stadium on Wednesday for the association's members and friends to offer their final respects to the MCA president, who passed away in New York on Monday.

Sanjay Naik and Amol Kale of the influential Bal Mahaddalkar group are set to become secretary and vice-president of the Mumbai Cricket Association, for which the polls will be held on Friday.

The Mumbai Cricket Association's secretary post election, set for September 3, became intriguing as cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar endorsed Suraj Samat. Samat, supported by the late president Amol Kale's wife, faces Abhay Hadap. Samat vowed to revive the T20 Mumbai League, while Hadap emphasized his grassroots experience. Nominations close August 30.

Mumbai Cricket Association president Amol Kale's sudden demise in New York has left the cricket community in mourning. Indian cricketers Ajinkya Rahane and Dhawal Kulkarni paid their final respects to Kale, who suffered a cardiac arrest during the T20 World Cup trip.

Amol Kale, Mumbai Cricket Association president, passed away after a cardiac arrest in New York at 47, after watching India’s victory over Pakistan in the T20 World Cup. His funeral on June 12 was attended by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Salman Khan, and others. Kale was elected MCA president in October 2022.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh has a strong suspicion that Amol Kale, arrested from the Goa-Karnataka border, and fugitive accused Nihal, alias Dada, could be the masterminds behind the assassination.

Former India batter Sandeep Patil on Thursday lost the presidential election of Mumbai Cricket Association to Amol Kale.

Former India pacer Raju Kulkarni has decided to stay on his post as the Mumbai chief selector after a “constructive, positive meeting” with Mumbai Cricket Association president Amol Kale and secretary Ajinkya Naik at the MCA office on Tuesday.

The special investigation team (SIT) probing the murder of Gauri Lankesh expressed strong suspicion that Amol Kale and fugitive accused Nihal alias Dada could be the masterminds of the plot to assassinate the journalist.

For the fourth consecutive time, a former India cricketer lost the presidential elections of the Mumbai Cricket Association. On Thursday, Amol Kale, a childhood friend of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, managed to pip India’s 1983 World Cup hero Sandeep Patil by 25 votes-the final ‘score’ being 183-158 -to become the new president of the MCA. Kale was the MCA vice-president in the last term.

The Mumbai Cricket Association is set to inaugurate cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar's life-size statue and Sachin Tendulkar Stand at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on November 1, a day before the 2023 ODI World Cup match between India and Sri Lanka.

In a shocking development, which sent Mumbai cricket into a pall of gloom. Mumbai Cricket Association president Amol Kale passed away due to a cardiac arrest on Monday in New York, where he had gone to watch the India versus Pakistan match of the 2024 T20 World Cup. Kale was 47.

Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru, is a "simple and quiet man", often spoke about Sanatan Dharma as a way of life.Once in a while, he would accompany vans selling books on Hindu and Vedic cultures.

The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has decided to honour cricketing legends by naming stands at the Wankhede Stadium after Rohit Sharma, Ajit Wadekar, and Sharad Pawar. Additionally, a lounge will be named after former MCA president Amol Kale. The MCA also announced an increase in the corpus for affiliated clubs, aiming to bolster grassroots cricket infrastructure in Mumbai.

The Special Investigating Team (SIT) investigating the M M Kalburgi murder case produced five of the accused before the third JMFC court here on Thursday.

In four days time, Sourav Ganguly will be elected unopposed to the post of BCCI president. The entire cricketing fraternity has been eagerly waiting for October 23 when “Dada” will take over the reigns of governing cricket body in India.

The Special Investigation Team will be applying to a Bangalore court to seek custody of Amol Kale to interrogate him in connection with murder of rationalist Govind Pansare.

The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) will invite applications for members of the Cricket Improvement Committee. “We will have a meeting of the office-bearers next week specifically focused on cricketing matters where we will decide on the CIC.

"Just like the Sudarshana Chakra killed the unscrupulous, our pistol will shoot those who talk ill about religion," sources in the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Gauri killing quoted the duo as saying.

Activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder case is in the final stage of investigation and a chargesheet is expected to be filed in two months. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has arrested 12 people in connection with her killing on September 5, 2017. Lankesh was known for her strong anti-Hindutva stand and some of the people arrested in the case are allegedly linked to Sanatan Sanstha and its allied outfit Hindu Janajagruti Samiti. The prime accused in the Lankesh case, Amol Kale is in CBI custody and interestingly, he is also the suspected mastermind behind the 2013 murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar. Here is a look at how the plot to murder Lankesh was planned and executed.

Kale was presented before the local court on Thursday.The court has remanded him in further police custody till November 29.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh has taken a former Shiva Sena corporator from Maharashtra into custody.