Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde will have to fight it out to become the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) president. And his foe is none other than NCP boss Sharad Pawar.
The Mumbai Cricket Association's (MCA) polls on October 18 gathered pace on Wednesday with the filing of nominations for all posts barring one by the group headed by outgoing vice president Vijay Patil in Mumbai.
Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Tuesday became the first political bigwig to file his nomination to contest for the presidentship of the Mumbai Cricket Association at its biennial election which is scheduled on October 18.
In their quest to paint a rosy picture about the health of Indian cricket, BCCI President N Srinivasan and former treasurer Ravi Savant's note in the Board's Annual Report doesn't have a single mention of Indian Premier League 2013 spot-fixing scandal that rocked Indian cricket.
It was an evening in memory of two eminent figures in cricket from yesteryear. The sport lost the great commentator Dicky Rutnagar and the popular administrator Jaywant Lele this year, men who are fondly remembered by the cricketing fraternity for they left an indelible mark in their respective fields.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Annual General Meeting (AGM) had passed a resolution which approved international cricket being staged at Cricket Club of India’s (CCI) Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. However, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) opposed this move and are unhappy with it.
Questions have cropped up over the appointment of former Hyderabad captain MV Sridhar as the General Manager (Cricket Operations) of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) at its Annual General Meeting in Chennai yesterday.
Senior Indian politician and Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) chief Rajiv Shukla will be one of the three new vice-presidents of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) even as South Zone expectedly nominated N Srinivasan for the post of President ahead of the Board's AGM in Chennai on Sunday.
Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has formally requested the BCCI to allot the second and final Test between India and the West Indies to the Wankhede Stadium so that Sachin Tendulkar could play his milestone 200th Test before the home crowd.
Vijay Patil, chairman of the DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai which has hosted Indian Premier League (IPL) finals in the past, has formed a select panel called 'Cricket First' to fight the forthcoming biennial elections of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) on October 18.