Rohit Motwani

Saurashtra Pacer Chetan Sakariya Took A Total Of Seven Wickets Putting Maharashtra In Trouble

Left-arm spinner Anukul Roy picked up a four-wicket haul as Jharkhand beat Maharashtra by eight wickets in a rain-hit match to enter the semifinals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Monday.

Nikhil Paradkar and Rohit Motwani made fluent half centuries to help Maharashtra end their first innings at 308 on the opening day of the All India Buchi Babu Memorial cricket tournament.

The five-member panel has announced five teams in past two weeks, none of which feature Gujarat wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel who until six months back, was the second wicketkeeper of Team India and also featured in the playing eleven during the triseries in Australia earlier this year.

Some persons broke open a window of Maharashtra cricket team captain Rohit Motwani's parked car on Bund Garden Road late on Sunday night and fled with his wife's jewellery worth Rs 4.97 lakh. Motwani had gone to attend a function at a luxury hotel on Bund Garden Road in his car.

Veteran Mumbai batsman Wasim Jaffer was today named captain of the West Zone squad for the upcoming Duleep Trophy tournament.

Run out is the best form of dismissal, they say. But Maharashtra batsmen gave the old cricket adage a whole new definition as they crashed to a 50-run defeat to Mumbai in the West Zone One-day league on Monday.

Mumbai’s inexperienced pace attack once again brought them back into contention by reducing Maharashtra to 112 for five in the second innings on the penultimate day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group ‘A’ match here on Saturday.

Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla returned with a four-wicket haul to guide Uttar Pradesh to a comfortable seven-wicket win over Maharashtra in a weather-hit Group D Twenty20 match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy here today.

Jharkhand produced a clinical performance to ease past Maharashtra by eight wickets (VJD method) in the Vijay Hazare quarterfinals at the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Monday.

The 20-year-old tall and lanky left-arm spinner from Nashik, Satyajeet Bachhav, has spun his way into the Maharashtra Ranji cricket team for the state's second encounter of the season against Tamil Nadu.

Delhi's bid for a quarterfinal berth received a major boost after their regular captain Ishant Sharma was released by the Indian team management for the fifth round Ranji Trophy group A game against Maharashtra, starting here tomorrow.

Yuvraj Singh was named the skipper of the India 'A' side for the unofficial three one-dayers and a Twenty20 game against the visiting West Indies 'A' side.

After a convincing start against Railways in the opener, a lacklustre Bengal suffered a seven-wicket defeat against Maharashtra in the second Super League Group A game of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy here on Saturday.

Maharashtra were 272-5 at tea. However, the most cherished wicket for the visitors fell when opener Swapnil Gugale got out on 174, his maiden first-class hundred, well past tea.

A promising cricket talent was nipped in the bud when Kishor Bhikane lost his life in an accident in Latur on Sunday. He was 24.

Online grocery stores such as Milkbasket and Bigbasket have partially suspended their operations in the national capital region amidst the lockdown, leaving many residents stuck as their orders scheduled for Monday and Tuesday stood cancelled. The Chemists and Drug Association in the city also spoke about the problems faced in the transportation of medicines and that could impact supply in the coming days.

In a Group ‘A’ encounter at the M Chinnaswamy stadium here, hosts Karnataka threw away a good start from the top-order batsmen and then returned to deliver an uninspiring bowling show as Punjab cruised to a six-wicket win.

Indian selectors sprang surprises while picking the Rest of India squad (for the Irani Trophy) and India 'A' and India 'B' sides for the Challenger Trophy.

Mumbai continued its winning streak in the Vijay Hazare Trophy after they defeated Punjab by 43 runs in an Elite Group A match on Friday.