Murtuza Hussain

The Hadapsar police on Sunday morning intercepted a truck carrying gutka worth Rs 46 lakh on the Pune-Solapur highway. Police have also seized the truck worth Rs 25 lakh.

Former Mumbai pacer Santosh Saxena has been named as one of the 3 coaches of the Railways senior team for the domestic season. The other 2 coaches are Kulamani Parida and Nikhil Doru.

Wasim Jaffer will lead Mumbai in the West Zone T20 League tournament scheduled at Rajkot from October 20-24.

Former Mumbai pacer Santosh Saxena has been named as one of the 3 coaches of the Railways senior team for the domestic season. The other 2 coaches are Kulamani Parida and Nikhil Doru.In 40 first-class games for Mumbai and Railways 1997-98 to 2009, Saxena picked up 94 wickets@30.

Wasim Jaffer has been appointed as captain of the Mumbai Ranji Trophy team in their season-opening Irani Cup clash against Rest of India.

Rohit Sharma has been replaced by Siddhesh Lad in the Indian Oil team, while Mayank Tehlan has come in for ONGC in their revised squads for the Corporate Trophy.

Tata Sports Club and Indian Oil qualified for the quarter-finals of the 8th All-India DY Patil T20 Cricket Tournament.

Canara Bank and India Oil will lock horns in the final of the DY Patil Twenty20 tournament.

After walking out of the squad in a huff for being dropped from the playing XI in the league stage of the Ranji Trophy, former India pacer Ajit Agarkar has returned to the Mumbai team for its West Zone One-day League campaign.

Everything Amol Muzumdar does in life, be it playing cricket or offering his views on it to the media, is wonderfully balanced. Never has he faltered.

Nishit Shetty and Rohan Gavaskar's 135-run fourth-wicket stand based Tata Sports Club's score of 360 for four against debutants Akabar Tarvels in the second round of the Times Cricket Shield 'A' Division league tie at the Brabourne Stadium.

A solid knock of 170 from southpaw Praful Waghela enabled Tata Sports Club to take vital first innings lead of 198 runs over Central Railway.

Irani Cup tie between 38-time Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai and the Rest of India offers the youngsters the ideal chance to showcase their mettle.

It's strange that while at the national level the future of the old guard -the Fab Four- is under a cloud at Mumbai Ranji level the old guard seems still to be in favour.

Parag Khanapurkar slammed a ton and Usman Malvi and Shardul Thakur took five wickets each to help Payyade beat Karnataka SA on the first innings in the 'A' Division of the Kanga League.

India Test discard leg-spinner Piyush Chawla picked up five wickets and Kerala left-arm seamer Prasanth Parameswaran took four wickets as defending champions Chemplast defeated Indian Income Tax by 82 runs in the BCCI Corporate Trophy at Motera. Parameswaran also bagged the man-of-the-match award.