Wilkin Mota

Akash Parkar and Jayant Jadhav picked four wickets each to help Air India regain the Times Shield 'A' division title on the third day of the final played at the MIG ground, Bandra, on Wednesday.

Young medium-pacer Shrikant Mundhe produced inspired stuff on day one of the Times Cricket Shield A Division final at the MCA's Bandra Kurla ground.

DY Patil Group topped group B of the Times Shield A Division league to make their maiden entry into the semi-finals. They led Western Railway B by 92 runs which helped them finish four points above them (10-6).

The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) will go ahead with its elections as originally planned on September 28, it was decided at an emergent Apex Council meeting to finalise the date of the polls, on Tuesday. “The MCA constitution mandates elections to be held before September 30.

Former Mumbai stumper Vinayak Samant has been appointed as the new coach of the Mumbai Ranji team for the upcoming season.

40-time champions Mumbai will take on Delhi in the quarterfinals of the Ranji Trophy at Cuttack, beginning on February 16.

A hat-trick by medium pacer Wilkin Mota enabled Cricket Club of India beat last year's runners-up Payyade Sports Club by 86 runs in the final to lift the late Padmakar Talim Shield, conducted by MIG Cricket Club (45-overs) at MIG ground, Bandra, on Sunday.

Santosh Shinde's all-round performance - six wickets and an unbeaten 62 - has set up an unlikely prospect of a win over Indian Oil in the third and last round of Group A of the Times Cricket Shield A Division league.

Swapnil Asnodkar (80) and Shrideep Mangela (40) helped DY Patil beat Tata Sports Club by seven runs to storm into the final of the DY Patil T20 Cricket Tournament.

Mumbai needed 98 for a win and skipper Suryakumar Yadav led the run-chase with an entertaining unbeaten 47 that contained a six and seven boundaries.

The catch that Vishal Dabolkar took to dismiss Deep ak Hooda off his own bowling was anoth er perfect example of the adage catches win matches.

Praful Waghela smashed 139 off just 68 balls to help Tata Sports Club score a ridiculously easy 108-run win over Akbar Travels as the All-India Dr D Y Patil T20 Cup got off to an explosive start at the DY Patil Cricket Stadium, Nerul on Tuesday.

Kings XI Punjab beat Mumbai Indians by 3 runs to win the 20th match of the second edition of the Indian Premier League at Kingsmead in Durban.

Former First-Class player Atul Ranade has been appointed as the Mumbai senior team's fielding coach for the upcoming season.

Mumbai's pre-season problems simply refuse to end. A day after this paper reported that Mumbai's Under-16 coach, former opener Vinayak Mane has put in his papers, TOI has learnt that ex-India seamer Balwinder Singh Sandhu has quit the Mumbai Cricket Association's Cricket Improvement Committee (CIC).

It is crunch time for teams in the last round of the Times Cricket Shield A Division league with semi-final qualification at stake.

Tata Sports Club opener Kaustubh Pawar has won the 'Best Batsman' award in the 'A' Division of the Times Shield Cricket tournament.

Tata Sports Club are well placed against Central Railway at the end of the second day of their three-day Times Cricket Shield 'A' division tie at the Parsee Gymkhana.

Centuries by openers Dheeraj Jadhav and Sushant Marathe helped Air India hammer 394 for six on the opening day of their four day Times Shield 'A' Division final against Tata Sports Club at the MIG ground, Bandra, on Monday.

TOI has learnt that the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) is set to hire the former South African fielding great Jonty Rhodes, who's currently the fielding coach of the Mumbai Indians, as their fielding consultant.

Tata Sports Club, 11-time Times Cricket Shield A Division champions, threw in the towel against defending champions Air India after just four sessions.

Skipper Sourav Ganguly (86*) led from the front to beat Kings XI Punjab by three wickets in their Indian Premier League tie at the Eden Gardens.

Western Railway 'B' entered the Times Shield 'A' Division final by virtue of their 303-run first innings lead over Air India on Day Two of the three-day semifinal at their home ground in Mahalaxmi, on Wednesday.

BPCL's Rajesh Verma grabbed 3 for 39 and he was well supported by Saurashtra left-arm-seamer Jaydev Unadkat (5-25).

A late blitzkrieg by skipper Ajit Agarkar pushed Tata Sports Club to a competitive 267 all out against Air India Blue in the second semi-final of the BCCI Corporate Trophy.

Fringe India players are likely to be denied the opportunity to impress selectors as rain is threatening to wash out the first Group C match in the inaugural Corporate Trophy.

After their remarkable eight-wicket win over Uttar Pradesh in their previous Ranji Trophy game in Kanpur, Mumbai have made six changes to the side.

A six-wicket effort by Shardul Thakur provided Mumbai an escape route in their Group A Ranji Trophy match against Uttar Pradesh.