Kiran Mokashi

The chaotic state of affairs at the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has seen a spate of resignations of late.

Finally, some good things seem to be happening again for Mumbai cricket. Just five days ago, former India pacer Raju Kulkarni and off-spinner Kiran Mokashi had quit the Cricket Improvement Committee of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) accusing the governing body of not implementing any of their ideas and suggestions.

Former India pacer Karsan Ghavri on Wednesday quit as a member of the Mumbai Cricket Association's Cricket Improvement Committee (CIC).

The Mumbai Cricket Association is expected to make appointments, including of those in the senior selection committee and coaches, in May.

Former Test captain and present national chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar has retained the chairmanship of the MCA's senior selection committee for the year 2007-08.

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).

MUMBAI: A housing society project financed by 11 cricketers--including Sachin Tendulkar--and a kabaddi player, has been in limbo at the Mumbai High Court for the last three years.

The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has sought applications for the post of coaches, including the one for the senior men's team, who will also get Rs 12 lakh bonus for winning the coveted Ranji Trophy.

The dismal show of the Mumbai Ranji team, which was knocked out in the league stage, came under the scanner of the Mumbai Cricket Association Friday.

This is a biography of Hemu Dalvi, a former first-class cricketer who coached the likes of India's 1983 World Cup hero Balwinder Singh Sandhu and India's bowling coach Paras Mhambrey. Dalvi passed away on Friday morning at the age of 82 after suffering from kidney-related issues. He was a swing bowler who played most of his cricket in Mumbai, and represented railways in domestic cricket. Dalvi was the cricket coach at the Jhunjhunwala College in Ghatkopar for 35 years, and produced four test cricketers and 40 Ranji Trophy players during his long stint amongst his students were Sandhu, Mhambrey, ex-Ranji player Kiran Mokashi, Ravichandran Thakkar, Arvind Dhuri, Pramod Satam, Manoj Gatti, Uday Keluskar, and Raju Shirke. In 2021, Dalvi had given Rs. 50000 to Dalvi through the Cricketers' Foundation. batting legend Sunil Gavaskar told TOI when informed about Dalvi's demise, "Hemu Sir was a good coach. He had a very good relations with all the good coaches in Mumbai -

Mumbai's domestic set up has thrown up some magnificent spinners in the past. But ever since the departure of off-spinner Ramesh Powar, Mumbai has witnessed a sudden dearth of quality spinners.

A rare Indian Rock Python, found in the fields near Mulshi on Monday morning, was brought to the Sant Bahinabai Chaudhary garden and snake park at Akurdi in Pimpri-Chinchwad for treatment.

Headed by former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar, the CIC was rocked recently when ex-India pacer Raju Kulkarni resigned from it due to differences over the appointment of selectors.

Former India seamer Karsan Ghavri on Friday quit the Cricket Improvement Committee (CIC) of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).

The city's cricketing fraternity was left grieving as former Mumbai and Railways First-Class player and selector Guru Gupte passed away on Wednesday at his residence in Thane. He was 66.

Even as it has hastily appointed Vinayak Samant as the Mumbai coach for the forthcoming season after Sulakshan Kulkarni declined the offer due to contractual issues, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) continues to face the heat from a few members of the Cricket Improvement Committee (CIC) for the way it treated Kulkarni.

The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has sought applications for the post of coaches, including one for the senior men's team, who will also get Rs 12 lakh bonus for winning the coveted Ranji Trophy.

The city’s cricket fraternity was left grieving as former Mumbai and Railways first-class player and selector Guru Gupte passed away on Wednesday in Thane. He was 66.

Former first-class cricketer Hemu Dalvi, who coached the likes of India's 1983 World Cup hero Balwinder Singh Sandhu and India's bowling coach Paras Mhambrey, passed away at his Dahisar residence on Friday morning at the age of 82. He was suffering from kidney-related issues.

At a time when covid is threatening to rear its ugly head again, this is a dangerous thing to happen. Apparently, nearly 2000 youngsters turned up at the MCA Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy at Bandra Kurla Complex on Saturday morning for open selection trials of the Mumbai under-19 team.