Friday 16 January '09
The Mumbai dressing room warmed up for the big party on Friday with a couple of mini-celebrations at the end of Day Four....Friday 16 January '09
Remembering batting records have always been big in Mumbai — be it a man in the maidan or the Master himself, memorable feats sit conveniently on their finger tips...Thursday
15 January '09There is an intriguing statistic connected to UP’s amazing run to the Ranji final. Despite overhauling several first-innings scores this season...Thursday
15 January '09Before the Ranji Trophy semi-final, Zaheer Khan was enjoying a well-deserved international break. “All I did during that time was catch up on sleep,” he says about the brief time away from the game...Wednesday
14 January '09The trademark, goofy smile on Praveen Kumar’s face has gone missing. After bowling 34 wicketless overs in Mumbai’s first innings...Wednesday
14 January '09When Uttar Pradesh opener Shivakant Shukla went out to bat on Tuesday after Mumbai were restricted to a total of 402, the 22-year-old southpaw would not...Tuesday
13 January '09HE was in the middle of a dream spell, having just sent back Mumbai openers Wasim Jaffer and Vinayak Samant. But then, 18-year-old UP paceman Bhuvneshwar Kumar suddenly froze...Tuesday
13 January '09Rohit Sharma and Abhishek Nayar go back a long way — Sharma, a die-hard car freak, has often had Nayar as his navigator during long drives...Monday
12 January '09The team meeting was about to commence in the UP dressing room but bowling coach Ashish Winston Zaidi was still busy arranging refreshments.Monday
12 January '09Hyderabad is second home to Mumbai’s middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma. His grandfather hails from Andhra Pradesh and his mother tongue is Telugu...Monday
12 January '09The story goes that after the nail-biting final moments of their Ranji Trophy semi-final at Nagpur, the Uttar Pradesh team decided to have an impromptu group photo...Saturday
10 January '09Though he has recovered fully, things aren’t getting any easier for RP Singh his first assignment after the lay-off will be the Ranji final...Friday
9 January '09Once one of Team India’s leading bowlers, Laxmipathy Balaji was out of cricket for three years due to a stress fracture...Friday
9 January '09If Mohammad Kaif, with his awkward stance and the jerky backlift is chalk, Wasim Jaffer’s languid grace at the crease fame is cheese....Thursday
8 January '09As Uttar Pradesh approached Tamil Nadu’s first-innings total of 445, the dressing room was expectedly tense.Wednesday
7 January '09When two unknown players come to the pitch with the sole intention of sticking around...Tuesday
6 January '09Praveen Kumar isn’t the typical tearaway pacer, one who gives batsmen sweaty palms.Tuesday
6 January '09If there was contest for the man with the longest face in the subdued UP dressing room...Monday
5 January '09When the Ranji season kicked off in the first week of November, two batsmen instantly grabbed the headlines.Sunday
4 January '09Mohammad Kaif vividly remembers the day when he was given the reins of the Uttar Pradesh Ranji team.Friday
2 January '09Uttar Pradesh medium-pacer Rudra Pratap Singh will miss the Ranji Trophy semi-final against Tamil Nadu to be played in Nagpur after sustaining a shoulder injury.Thursday
1 January '09There are four batsmen on the domestic circuit who wouldn’t mind doing either. They could get nostalgic about 2008 and, at the same time, be positive about 2009.....Wednesday
31 December '08Though in the middle of a vacation, Sachin Tendulkar has his eyes on the Ranji Trophy...Tuesday
30 December '08Mumbai completed a comfortable nine-wicket win over a hapless Himachal Pradesh on Monday...Monday
29 December '08Having dominated the rival bowlers for two days, Mumbai rubbed it in by reducing Himachal to 200 for five in the second innings on Sunday....
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