Shrikant Mundhe

Nagaland rode on veteran wicketkeeper-batter Chetan Bist's all-round show to down Sikkim by six wickets in their Ranji Trophy plate group opener on Sunday. The former Rajasthan glovesman slammed 115 and took eight catches behind the stumps as Nagaland chased down 174 in 40 overs to pocket six points.

All-rounder Shrikant Mundhe continued his imperious form with a century as Nagaland posted 276 for 5 on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy plate group match against Mizoram at the Eden Gardens here on Thursday.

Shrikant Mundhe, who played as a pace bowling all-rounder for Maharashtra spanning 12 seasons, has taken Nagaland to the Ranji Trophy knockouts with his batting skills.

Chetan Bist struck an unbeaten 155 after Shrikant Mundhe stood tall with a career-best double century to put Nagaland in the driver's seat in their Ranji Trophy plate group match against Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday. In reply, Arunachal Pradesh were tottering at 199 for five, still needing 121 runs to avoid a first innings defeat.

Shrikant Mundhe's six-wicket haul enabled Maharashtra take a slender first innings lead over Odisha on the third and penultimate day of their Ranji Trophy Group A match here on Saturday.

Seasoned allrounder Shrikant Mundhe struck his maiden double century to put Nagaland in the driver's seat in their Ranji Trophy plate group match here on Friday.

Maharashtra' all-rounder Shrikant Mundhe only got a four-over spell against Mumbai in the quarter-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here at the Palam cricket ground on Wednesday.

Goa dished out an all-round performance to thrash Nagaland by 229 runs inside three days to return to the top of the Ranji Trophy Plate table on Thursday.

Maharashtra allrounder Shrikant Mundhe got to bowl only four overs against Mumbai in the quarterfinals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy at the Palam cricket ground on Wednesday.

Last edition's runners-up Kolhapur Tuskers picked an experienced all-rounder Shrikant Mundhe and hard-hitting wicketkeeper-batsman Aniket Porwal to strengthen their squad ahead of the upcoming second edition of the Maharashtra Premier League (MPL).

Wicketkeeper-batsman Yogesh Takawale slammed an unbeaten 117 as Nagaland batsmen made merry against the Arunachal Pradesh to pile up a mammoth 543 for seven declared in their Ranji Trophy Plate group fixture on Sunday.

Inspiration can come from many quarters but when legends come calling to give a pep talk to young cricketers the atmosphere simply becomes mesmerising. The players from Maharashtra Premier League outfit Kolhapur Tuskers, owned by the Punit Balan Group (PBG), had such a memorable experience when West Indies’ fast bowling legend Courtney Walsh visited the team’s training session at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana in Pune.

Bowlers helped Saurashtra successfully defend a small total and record an exciting four-run victory in the West Zone Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 league at the SCA stadium on Monday.

Jharkhand took a massive 591-run first-innings lead but decided to bat again instead of enforcing follow-on in their Ranji Trophy pre-quarterfinal against Plate group toppers Nagaland at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday.

Rishabh Pant notched up his second first class century in only his fourth game, a strokeful and unbeaten 155, to keep Delhi in the hunt for the first innings lead against Maharashtra in their Ranji Trophy Group B match.

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.

The two-time IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders outbid Kings XI Punjab to bag Carlos Brathwaite, the star of 2016 World T20, for Rs 5 crore in the auction. Out of their Rs 15.2 crore purse, KKR spent 9.15 crore to buy eight players.

Riding on skipper Yusuf Pathan's brilliant unbeaten half century, Baroda registered their fourth successive win by thrashing Maharashtra by six wickets in a West Zone leg match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy.

Veteran seamer R Vinay Kumar bagged a match-winning four-wicket haul as Puducherry thrashed Manipur by nine wickets to return to the top of the Plate Group table in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Monday.

Ruturaj Gaikwad (82) and Naushad Shaikh (68) blasted twin fifties as Maharashtra defeated Tamil Nadu by 22 runs in their Group B match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Wednesday.