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Big news.My coach and other clubmate are contesting for the post of Magement committe members of MCA under leadership of Sharad Pawar.The coach has served two tenures of 4 years each at MCA before under Sharad Pawar.The other clubmate is manager of IPL team and other touring international squads.Have to be there at MCA on 18th to show them support.Hope they win.

Have to travel to Gujarat tonight, so missing the action at Wankhede tomorrow. Hope our club group wins the elections of India's s most precious domestic cricket association. Can't wait for the results.

The elections are on next Saturday (18th Oct)

Yes, the coach and clubmate are going to win this elections. All about politics, but seems that its now all in our favor. Hope both of them get a place in the committee.

Election completed. Sharad Pawar group won but coach and clubmate remain unselected from the winning group this time. Selected members are mostly from prominent clubs than ours. However,our club will still benefit imo. Hope they rock this year as well and continue the quality Mumbai cricket system administration so well at all levels that we win Ranji as frequently as only we do.

Sharad Pawar - President
Vice Presidents; Ravi Sawant and Vijay Patil
Hon. Treasurer: Vinod Deshpande
Jt. Hon. Secretaries: Dr. P.V. Shetty and Nitin Dalal

Managing committee members:
Nadim Memon
Deepak Patil
Lalchand Rajput
Arvind Kadam
Abey Kuruvilla
Sanjay Patil
Ramesh Vajge
Arman Mallick
Shrikant Tigdi
Navin Shetty
Deepak Murkar

10 days tour to Gujarat in December. One day night match as well .

clubcricketeradi wrote:10 days tour to Gujarat in December. One day night match as well .

Ooooh a day/night match sounds very interesting, would love to play in that but sadly grassroots cricket doesn't have such facilities to make it possible

Alviro Patterson wrote:

clubcricketeradi wrote:10 days tour to Gujarat in December. One day night match as well .

Ooooh a day/night match sounds very interesting, would love to play in that but sadly grassroots cricket doesn't have such facilities to make it possible

All of us who have been selected in the squad have to confirm the availability soon as the management has to book the flight tickets to Gujarat in advance to keep flight travel cost lower and choose replacements if anyone cannot make it. The clothes used during matches and tour with our club sponsors logo has to be ordered. Hotel accommodation has to be done. I am not yet sure whether i should tell the coach to go ahead in booking my tickets. One match being day/night, everyone is very keen for the tour to begin. I guess it will be very tough to play in floodlit conditions and dew.The number of matches and overs per matches will depend on the opponent club as well.I guess there will be about 5 matches at least on this tour.

Do you have much captaincy experience Adi?

I thought you might make a good skipper, but there's a lot to do off the pitch as well I suppose.

Arthur, i have not yet got an opportunity to be a captain in proper cricket. My captaincy experience is only in street cricket matches.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:I thought you might make a good skipper, but there's a lot to do off the pitch as well I suppose.

It would be nice to get into that role.There is lot to do in captains role.Often when i field or bat, i keep on thinking about which bowler to bowl, how to plan a target or run chase, which field to set and many relevant things.So it is not going to make me tense if i get an opportunity.Yes, rotating the bowlers well and ensuring the overs are completed in allocated innings time is crucial.Also keeping the team members playing in spirit of the game is important.The more match experienced the captain the better.

The most important off the field task imo is the team meeting.In some cases the cricketers approach captain or team mates if their own whites or shoes are damaged and temporary arrangement is required for next day.The club website and data updation is taken care by one or more cricketers who may not necessarily be the captain.The head coach and assistant coaches take up roles of scheduling inter city tours and local matches.Coach takes up the responsibility of co-ordinating with the sponsor to get clothes and some gear sponsored by them.We also have a facebook page which is used to post team selections and tournaments fixtures , so that those who have missed the nets can keep track of all important tournaments.Telephonic conversations is done by captain as well as clubmates.The off filed tasks of the captain are shared amongst various club cricketers.

One of my club mate is back from Kenya tour. He played two super league mtches under Steve Tikolo and Jimmy Kammande alongside other national Kenyan players. Won 8 consecutive matches