GK Menon, veteran sports scribe and mentor to several Mumbai cricketers, dies at 93

Menon played cricket at the club level and also was an active member of the Shivaji Park Gymkhana in Dadar, central Mumbai.

Ranji Trophy: Batsman Suryakumar Yadav named Mumbai skipper

The 29-year-old batsman was in a red-hot form during the just concluded Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Mumbai, the 41-time domestic champions, play their first game of the 2019-20 Ranji Trophy season against Baroda in Vadodara from December 9.

The 36-year-old has played 103 first-class games, the bulk of them for Mumbai, and scored 5749 runs while taking 173 wickets.

Mumbai secured a nine-wicket victory over Bihar after bundling them out for 69 runs, with Rohit finishing the innings with an unbeaten 33.

The assistant coach of the Mumbai domestic team, Amit Dani stresses on the need to improve the team’s fitness in order to get the team back on track.