Former cricketer Nilesh Kulkarni, widely remembered as the bowler who picked a wicket from his first ball, has come up with a unique concept.
Sachin Tendulkar recently launched two safety initiatives by Mumbai Railway Police- Safety Alert Messages Exclusively for Passengers (SAMEEP) and B-Safe.
Vengsarkar's Academy has helped Agarkar, Yuvraj, Manan Vohra, and others.
His record 546 runs on Wednesday was a culmination of the rigorous efforts through the years during which he scored loads of runs. With the enormous support from his father, 14-year-old Prithvi Shaw, barely five feet tall, has given copious evidence of star in the making. Abhijit Banare looks at the young prodigy who has turned out to be the next big thing for Mumbai cricket after Arman Jaffer and Sarfaraz Khan.
I first came across Sachin Tendulkar when we were playing a school game in Kalyan. I was playing for the SV Joshi High School and we were facing Sachin’s Sharadashram. Sachin smashed us all over the park and got a century. Years later, I shared the dressing room with him for Mumbai and India.
On October 2, 1997, Pakistan clinched a three-match One-Day International (ODI) series 2-1 over arch rivals Pakistan at the Gadaffi Stadium, Lahore. The wrecker-in-chief was Ijaz Ahmed, who with his belligerent hitting took the game away from India. Sarang Bhalerao revisits Ijaz’s best ODI knock.
Describing the Australian team currently touring India as one of the weakest sides, former cricketer Nilesh Kulkarni on Tuesday pointed out that the below-par showing of the tweakers has affected the visitors' performance in the ongoing Test series against India.
On February 25, 1998, Sachin Tendulkar sounded the war bugle as Australia commenced their campaign in India with a belligerent double hundred for Mumbai in a tour game against the visitors. Through that carnage, his single target was the talismanic Shane Warne — who would go on to bear the brunt of Tendulkar’s fury the whole season. Nishad Pai Vaidya revisits the game when Tendulkar inspired Mumbai to beat a top class international side.
Mumbai, or erstwhile Bombay, has definitely produced more Test cricketers of quality than any other Ranji Trophy side. As they eye another Ranji triumph, Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at the lesser known stars who had stayed back to serve their team when the big guns were on international duty.
Top former cricketers including Dilip Vengsarkar and Lalchand Rajput will test their cricket skills, years after retirement, at a corporate cricket tournament which begins on Sunday.