Ramakant Desai

Shivaji Park and Mumbai cricket are inseparable. Sample the names that owe their careers to this cricketing stable... Vijay Manjrekar, Subhash Gupte, Ajit Wadekar, Sandeep Patil, Padmakar Shivalkar, Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli.

Mumbai's attempt to sing the redemption song got off on a wrong note when the batsmen surrendered meekly to Baroda in the first match of the West Zone One-Day League for the Ramakant Desai Trophy on Thursday.

Vishu Bondre played 8 games for Mumbai as a lower order batsman and a medium fast bowler and formed a combination with former India fast bowler Ramakant Desai for his employers ACC.

Veteran sports journalist GK Menon died in suburban Mumbai on Tuesday morning.

Police have arrested eleven persons from Balli, following skirmishes between villagers over the issue of right to carry the palanquin of the Shree Shantadurga Ballikarin Sansthan.

Statistical highlights on day two of the second Test between India and New Zealand at Eden Gardens on Saturday.

Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said his government would soon draft a comprehensive action plan to provide state-of-the-art infrastructure for promotion of sports.

Shivaji Park Gymkhana is one club that shows how flamboyance and character of players can make cricket so entertaining, not only for the players but also for the spectators.

The 27th Sportstar Trophy MCA Under-19 selection trial cricket tournament will be played from October 30 to November 22.

Former Delhi cricketer Rajinder Pal, who had represented the country in one Test match, passed away at his Dehradun residence on Wednesday, family sources confirmed.

Robin Uthappa and Saurabh Tiwary, two batsmen who shone during the Indian Premier League for their respective franchises, would take part in the Vijay Manjrekar memorial single wicket cricket tournament organised by the Shivaji Park Gymkhana on May 9.

Baroda cricket team finished their late Ramakant Desai West Zone one-dayers' campaign in style after clinching last-over thriller against Saurashtra.

A brief look at Baroda's young wicketkeeper Dixit Patel and one will wonder how a tiny man of his stature ever be playing cricket.

While all eyes are currently traded in Dhaka, where the World T20 action is happening, Rajkot cricket fans will not have to wait for too long before they can witness a plethora of class cricketers in their own city.

Gujarat cricket team had nothing much to look up to at the start of the 20113-14 season with many players quitting the state team and settling for other states.

It made for lovely banter in Mumbai's club circuit and Whatsapp groups. Sunil Gavaskar, an India and Dadar Union (DU) legend giving the first Test cap in Kanpur to Shreyas Iyer, a product of Mumbai's most fertile cricketing stable, Shivaji Park Gymkhana (SPG), DU's fiercest club rival.

Baroda team has always boast of featuring famed cricketers in their playing line-up. Right from Anshuman Gaikwad to Kiran More and Nayan Mongia to now the Pathan Bros—Yusuf and Irfan and Munaf Patel.

One thing common in all these wins is the fact that team's younger lot is contributing massively.

A bat signed by players of all teams that took part in the 1985 World Championship of Cricket in Australia and belonging to the collection of former off spin great Erapalli Prasanna, fetched the highest price in an auction.