Keenan Vaz

Life may not be fair but it does offer you a second chance if you are good enough to accept it.

Pace spearhead Ashok Dinda on Monday claimed his 25th five-wicket haul in first-class cricket to hand Bengal a first innings lead over Goa, which virtually sealed their passage into the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals from Group D.

Amogh Desai remained unbeaten on a defiant 53 to stage a recovery after Ashok Dinda claimed three wickets, as Goa reached 191 for five on day two of their Ranji Trophy Group D fixture against Bengal on Sunday.

Ganeshraj Narvekar has returned to the state Ranji Trophy team after not too long ago being expelled by the Goa Cricket Association for six years. Ironically, he returns for the match against a team he played his last match four years ago – Jharkhand

Goa skipper Sagun Kamat's unbeaten 110 was the game-changer for his side as they edged past Gujarat by one wicket in their Group C Vijay Hazare Trophy clash at SSN College ground on Wednesday.

Goa Lions and Reliance were the big winners on the opening day of the Goa Corporate League (GCL) at the Academy ground in Porvorim on Saturday

Amogh Desai picked his shots carefully as he helped Salgaocar Cricket Club defeat Caculo Goans by six wickets and emerge champions in the Goa Professional League (GPL) T20 cricket tournament at the Academy ground in Porvorim on Sunday.

Former India fast bowler Dodda Ganesh has been handed a third stint with the Goa Ranji Trophy squad and asked to get the state back among the Elite. Goa had a terrible show last season, losing seven of the nine matches in the Elite group C of the Ranji Trophy. Goa finished at the bottom of the pool -five points less than Tripura who finished ahead of them in ninth spot - and were relegated to the Plate division.

When Darpan Pagui was just four years old, he picked up the bat and swung it so well that his father, Dinesh, was convinced that his son had a future in cricket.

Panaji: The Goa Cricket Association has decided to fund both Goan teams which will take part in the Goa Corporate League, starting Saturday at the Academy ground in Porvorim.

Skipper G Hanuma Vihari (169) and KS Bharat (105) starred in Andhra's 29-run win over Mumbai on Wednesday, its sixth straight win in the Vijay Hazare Trophy Group C League.

Robin Uthappa completed an unbeaten triple hundred to put KSCA XI in the driver's seat against Jharkhand CA on Day 2 of the Safi Darashah tournament.

Manish Pandey and Mayank Agarwal hammered a fifty each as Karnataka scored a thumping nine-wicket win over Goa in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 Trophy.

Hyderabad were left fighting to save a follow-on as two left-handers - medium-pacer Kulwant Khejroliya (3/40) and spinner Vikas Mishra (3/36) - struck vital blows to leave the hosts reeling at 194 for eight at stumps on the second day of the Ranji Trophy Group A league match here on Sunday.

Left-arm spinner KP Appanna grabbed eight wickets to put defending champions KSCA XI in sight of a victory against Goa Cricket Association on the penultimate day of Safi Darashah all-India cricket tournament.

Spearheaded by opener Asad Pathan who smashed 99 off 63 balls with four sixes and 11 fours, Chowgule scored a six-wicket victory over the defending champions with an over to spare.

After a year of grumbling, infighting, politicking and underachieving in the Ranji Trophy, there is little doubt that Goan cricket needed a fresh start