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Gaurav Gupta

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Senior Assistant Editor at The Times of India

Mumbai, India
Joined August 2012
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Gaurav Gupta
10 months
Just spotted in Mumbai.. South African cricket great AB de Villiers watching an inter-school match, alongwith Dinesh Karthik @ Shivaji Park #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
3 years
@WasimJaffer14 please help if you can 🙏 this is for my Bua
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Gaurav Gupta
6 months
#breaking BCCI forms three-member committee to suggest ways to improve domestic cricket..The committee includes India head coach Rahul Dravid, chief selector Ajit Agarkar and NCA head VVS Laxman #cricket #BCCI
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Gaurav Gupta
2 years
My Ajinkya Rahane story that appeared in the TOI Mumbai edition:)
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Gaurav Gupta
1 month
Boss..I never wrote or reported this..so.pls stop misquoting me and fabricating a part of my copy..I never ever wrote this..pls don't put me in trouble..stop this mischief and delete this tweet kindly!
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Gaurav Gupta
2 years
Dear tweeple.. Kindly notice this again..this is what appeared in the TOI Mumbai edition that day.. What appeared that day was in the Pune edition..cannot even imagine insulting a cricketer like this.. @vikramsathaye @JayShah
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4 months
So for all those who think that there is a rift between LSG captain KL Rahul and team owner Sanjeev Goenka..this is a pic from what was apparently a private dinner yesterday evening at Mr Goenka's home..all is well between them and with LSG..cheers! @LucknowIPL #IPL2024
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Gaurav Gupta
2 months
This man, PV Shetty..has played a crucial role in the making of India's 2024 T20 WC winning captain Rohit Sharma..it was PV who brought cricket to the suburbs of Mumbai..as a youngster, Rohit used to play fr his club Payyade SC in Borivali (then moved to Kandivali) #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
10 months
#breaking Prithvi Shaw retained by Delhi Capitals #IPLTrade #bcci
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Gaurav Gupta
3 years
Many congrats @RatnakarShetty6 sir..awaiting a cracker.. All the best sir!! Looking forward to reading this one!!
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Gaurav Gupta
7 months
All 4 teams in the Ranji Trophy semifinals this season have coaches from Mumbai #RanjiTrophy Chandu Pandit - Madhya Pradesh Sulakshan Kulkarni - Tamil Nadu Omkar Salvi - Mumbai Atul Ranade - Assistant Coach - Vidharbha
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7 months
India No 3 batsman Shubman Gill trains at the Rajkot nets on the morning of day 2. He was out for a 9-ball duck yesterday #indiaveng
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Gaurav Gupta
5 months
Time to dump this stupid Impact Player rule..otherwise the IPL will be reduced to a festival/exhibition tournament which Noone will take seriously..u wont ever get allrounders..save the bowlers..scrap this rule fr good #IPL2024
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Gaurav Gupta
3 months
Reports of shubman Gill being sent home from US on disciplinary grounds are grossly incorrect, he and avesh khan are returning purely due to enough India players being there (including reserves) #2024T20worldcup
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6 months
Mumbai captain Ajinkya Rahane gives his autograph to a veteran autograph collector at the MCA ground in bkc #RanjiTrophy
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Gaurav Gupta
1 month
Update from IPL owners meeting with BCCI: t seems that a majority of the IPL team owners are in favour of a mini auction and not a mega auction #IPL
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Gaurav Gupta
2 years
With 38 votes.. I enjoyed a landslide victory in the SJAM elections.. Am now an Executive Committee member @SJAM .. Thanks a lot to all my friends for turning up to vote fr me despite the rain.. Appreciate ur support😀😀💪
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Gaurav Gupta
1 year
Congratulations to Nitin Menon, who will be umpiring in his maiden 50 overs World Cup. During this WC, Menon will surpass S Venkatraghavan's Indian record (52) for being the on-field umpire in most number of ODIs #2023 World Cup #icc #bcci #cricket
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5 months
Last month, during the Ranji Trophy 🏆 final at wankhede 🏟, Abhishek Nayar had told me: Angkrish Raghuvanshi will bounce back (after being excluded from Mumbai Ranji squad) soon..as usual, he wasn't wrong..The man's reading of talent is fab.. #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
3 years
Incidentally, the last two exclusive interviews of Team Indias new coach have been done by urs truly😄😄😊😊
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Gaurav Gupta
7 months
India's new wk and slip cordon ready for launch in 3rd Test vs England at Rajkot? Dhruv Jurel keeping, Sarfaraz at first slip, yashasvi at second slip, payidar at gully #indiaveng #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
3 years
Just began reading #mission domination.. So far a captivating, compelling read.. Capturing India's conquest in Aus earlier this year..Super wrk.. @BoriaMajumdar @kushansarkar
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Gaurav Gupta
3 years
a rare pic of the Maharashtra U-19 women's Captain with the U-19 Trophy in Mumbai a few years back.. Guess who is this.. Clue-shes arguably the best batter in women's 🏏 today:) #throwback
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Gaurav Gupta
6 months
Having just played his last first class match, Veteran pacer Dhawal Kulkarni rejoices Mumbai's Ranji Trophy winning moment at the wankhede 🏟 with his daughter #RanjiTrophyFinal
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Gaurav Gupta
1 year
#breaking Indian team for the aus ODI series to be picked today #cricket #bcci
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Gaurav Gupta
1 year
Just in: Former India opener Sudhir Naik is in a serious condition after suffering a fall at his residence. Admitted to Hinduja Hospital. Prayers for his recovery 🙏
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Gaurav Gupta
2 months
BREAKING: A reliable source told me: The BCCI is planning a victory parade for the World Champion India team tomorrow evening at the Wankhede Stadium. An open bus parade last one km into the wankhede stadium, then small presentation #T20WorldCup
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Gaurav Gupta
8 years
Afghan boy Murtaza Ahmadi who had become an online hit iafter wearing a shirt bearing Lionel Messi's number 10 has finally met his hero
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Gaurav Gupta
6 months
The legendary Sunil Gavaskar and former India womens team captain Diana Edulji enjoy the action in the Ranji Trophy final from the Presidents' Box at the Wankhede Stadium. Also in the pic are Prof Ratnakar Shetty and MCA secy Ajinkya Naik #RanjiTrophyFinal
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Gaurav Gupta
7 months
#breaking ace India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who completed 500 test wickets today, has left Rajkot tonight to be with his family due to some personal emergency #INDvsENG
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Gaurav Gupta
7 months
#breaking In what will be an emotional occasion for him, veteran pacer Dhawal Kulkarni, who played 12 ODIs and two T20Is for India between 2014-16, is likely to announce his retirement from the game after Mumbai’s last Ranji Trophy league match against Assam
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Gaurav Gupta
26 days
When BCCI secretary Jay Shah was quizzed yesterday during his interaction with TOI's reporters and editors in Mumbai abt whether the Board was planning to launch a league for retired cricketers, he replied: "It’s fake news. No proposal has been discussed about that" #cricket
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1 year
#Breaking : Indian batsman Prithvi Shaw to play for Northamptonshire in County cricket after Duleep Trophy #cricket #BCCI
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Gaurav Gupta
1 month
Delhi Captails co-owner Parth Jindal: I am not in favour of the Impact player rule as it's detrimental for Indian cricket as it hinders the growth of allrounders, though it gives chances to a lot of new players #IPL
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Gaurav Gupta
3 months
When Mohammed Nabi was playing in the IPL for Mumbai Indians, I had asked him in a presser on how it felt to return to Wankhede 🏟, where a brilliant innings by Glenn Maxwell had broken their hearts at the ODI World Cup last year..his reply was super
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Gaurav Gupta
3 months
On the Parsee Gymkhana notice board..Mumbai pacer Tushar Deshpande, who has been picked for India's team for the Zimbabwe tour, will now soon be the second India player from Parsee Gymkhana after SKY #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
4 months
#breaking Prithvi Shaw is set to again turn out for Northamptonshire – a county he represented last season -this summer. The 23-year-old, who was a part of Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy-winning side in March, is expected to play for county for the rest of season #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
2 years
A group of fans, who had travelled from Bhusaval to watch yesterday's T20Imatch at the Wankhede Stadium wished a speedy recovery to Rishabh Pant:)
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2 years
Prithvi Shaw: 379 off 383 balls vs Assam on Day 2 in Ranji Trophy... No one can stop genius beyond a point🙏 #RanjiTrophy #BCCI
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Gaurav Gupta
7 months
A pure Pata (flat track) on the cards at Rajkot on offer fr the third Test between india and England?looking at the 'clean shaven' pitch..looks like:)..meanwhile India head coach RD has just had a long chat (as usual) with the groundstaff #indiaveng
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Gaurav Gupta
2 years
Jaydev Unadkat picked as Mohd Shamis replacement for Bangladesh Tests..many congrats @JUnadkat ur years of hardwrk in domestic 🏏 has finally paid off!
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Gaurav Gupta
4 months
Totally agree..he is a match winner for Aus..but in the IPL he has been a big disappointment..bought fr large sums by franchises but hardly done justice to his massive talent (though I still feel his 201 not out vs Afghanistan at wankhede was No 1 ODI knock ever #IPL2024
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glenn maxwell….HE IS THE MOST OVERRATED player in the history of ipl… #IPL2024 ….
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Gaurav Gupta
3 months
Some v v sad news...MCA president Amol Kale has passed away due to cardiac arrest in New York..was there to watch India Pak T20 wc match yesterday..RIP #2024T20worldcup @MumbaiCricAssoc
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Gaurav Gupta
2 years
Filed my nomination for the forthcoming SJAM elections @3 .05pm @WIFA office, Cooperage Ground.. Pls support me and wish me all the best:)
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2 months
A special thanks to the Mumbai Cricket Association and it's media media team for opening the press box and providing all the facilities to the reporters at the last minute to cover Team India celebrations at the Wankhede Stadium 👏 👏 🏟 @MumbaiCricAssoc
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6 months
The Khan brothers-Sarfaraz and Musheer are set to play in the Times Cricket Shield Final at DY Patil 🏟 in Navi Mumbai #cricket
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5 months
RCB training hard at Wankhede Stadium 🏟 ahead of their key clash vs MI on Thursday #MIvsRCB #IPL2024
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Gaurav Gupta
6 months
A special memento commemorating the occasion of 50 years of Wankhede Stadium will be presented to both the team captains and all match officials before the start of play on the Ranji Trophy final. Free entry for spectators: MCA #RanjiTrophy
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Gaurav Gupta
1 year
#breaking JioCinema will live-stream the India squad announcement press conference tonight (Sept 18) at 8:30 PM with exclusive inputs from experts before and after the announcement #bcci #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
2 years
Indian captain Rohit Sharma interacted with the Zimbabwe U-19 team at the MCA ground in BKC today!
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6 months
The MCA has decided to reward Mumbai's Ranji Trophy winning team with a booty of Rs 5cr, matching the prize money awarded by the bcci to the ranji trophy winners #RanjiTrophyFinal
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1 month
Sunrisers Hyderabad owner Kayya Maran arrives for the BCCI meeting with IPL owners at the BCCI HQ in Mumbai #cricket
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20 days
BCCI secretary Jay Shah at Ceat Ratings Awards: Like I said in Rajkot, that we are going to hoist our flag in Barbados, and our captain did that. If we have the blessing of 1.4 billion people, then we can do the same in Champions Trophy, WTC final and the Women’s T20 World Cup
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@toi_gauravG
Gaurav Gupta
4 years
When your story ends impacting lives! #PositiveChange
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Gaurav Gupta
2 years
@mufaddal_vohra Hi bro.. Would be nice if u acknowledge the story from which u are shamelessly quoting this... Thanks!
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2 months
As a Mumbai selector, Former India batsman Dilip Sardesai (left) was one of the first few to have spotted a then teenaged Rohit Sharma's precocious talent in the early 2000s! #cricket
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5 months
IF THIS useless impact player rule is not here in that T20 world cup, what's it doing in the IPL? Only killing the tournament #IPL2024
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Gaurav Gupta
4 years
All the reports about women's IPL are false...there's nothing called as women's IPL RT now..it's the same exhibition games thaht happen during the IPL ev year!
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2 months
Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar continues to be a popular man in England. When he was told that Vengsarkar was in England with his academy team, Graham Lovett, who was chairman of the Westhoughton cricket club when he represented them in 1985, came to meet him #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
9 months
#breaking IPL-2024 window confirmed between March 22-May end #iplauction2024
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Gaurav Gupta
1 year
#breaking England's Richard Illingworth and Sri Lanka's Ruchira Palliyaguruge will be the on-field umpires for the India versus Pakistan Asia Cup clash at Pallekele on September 2. Paul Wilson will be the TV umpire, while Javagal Srinath will be the match ref #bcci #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
6 months
We lost the match at 9am (on Day 1) Tamil Nadu coach sulakshan Kulkarni on his captain Sai Kishore 's decision to bat first after winning the toss on a green top at mca ground in bkc #RanjiTrophy
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1 month
India will host the Men's Asia Cup in 2025, which will be played in the T20 format, as per the Asian Cricket Council's (ACC) release of an Invitation for Expressions of Interest (IEOI) document on Saturday #cricket
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3 months
Former India opener Gautam Gambhir to be interviewed virtually at 12pm by BCCI's CAC today for India head coach job #cricket
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1 month
Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan arrives with his secretary Pooja Dadlani at the BCCI HQ for IPL owners meeting with BCCI officials ..the security asked no pics were to be taken of the superstar #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
6 months
Shreyas Iyer bats at the nets on the eve of the ranji trophy final between Mumbai and Vidarbha #ranjitrophyfinal
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Good to see our TOI Indore photographer Praveen Barnale's son Dev Barnale, a Madhya Pradesh cricketer, doing well in club cricket in England, scoring more than 800 runs and taking 10 wickets while playing for two clubs #cricket
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1 year
#Breaking Mumbai pacer Tushar Deshpande added in place of injured Saurashtra left-arm pacer Chetan Sakriya for Duleep 🏆 #Duleeptrophy #domesticcricket #bcci
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3 years
India's Bhavinaben Patel creates history by winning Silver Medal in Class 4 table tennis category at the Tokyo Paralympics Games. In the final she lost to China's ZHOU Ying by 7-11, 5-11, 6-11 . Zhou had also defeated Bhavina in the group stages
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Gaurav Gupta
5 months
#breaking hearing that the BCCI's meeting with all the 10 franchises in Ahmedabad on April 16 is not happening. The meeting was supposed to discuss the specifics of the next IPL mega auction which will be held ahead of the 18th season of the league #IPL2024
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#Breaking Lisa Sthalekar to be the mentor of UP Warriors.. Head coach: John Lewis, Anju Jain will be the assistant coach.. Bowling coach will be Ashley Nofke #WPL2023
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Gaurav Gupta
2 years
@vikramsathaye @JayShah I do wish, though, that u had clarified with me once.. Tried to reach out.. Even personally reprimand me if I made a mistake at all..rather than tweeting abt it straightaway and exposing me to all sorts of threats and abuses here.. Next time pls avoid it with anyone else🙏
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The update from IPL owners meeting with BCCI so far: Conversations on Big or small auction. It comes down to how many players each team wants and looks like they want to retain more players #IPL
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#Breaking Afghanistan will ‘host’ a one-off Test against New Zealand at the Shahid Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex in Greater Noida in September, TOI has learnt. This will be the maiden Test between Afghanistan and New Zealand #cricket
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Congratulations to former Mumbai allrounder Paul Valthaty for becoming the coach of the Seattle Thunderbolts Milcusa in MLC in the USA. Seattle thunderbolts were the MLC champions in 2022. Valthaty is also the head coach for the Thunderbolts cricket academy in Seattle
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4 years
Hearing that crowd, Media allowed in Chennai.. Great news if true🙏
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Gaurav Gupta
3 years
Many Congratulations Shardul Thakur & Mittali Parulkar.. Have a lovely innings ahead!!
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1 year
#breaking a few domestic LSG players like Ayush Badoni and Prerak Mankad are all off to Australia🇦🇺 for a short pre-season camp #cricket
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#breaking BCCI secretary Jay Shah confirms that Rohit Sharma will lead India in Champions Trophy & WTC 25 final (if India make it) #cricket #BCCI
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1 year
Indian cricket team for Asia Cup likely to be picked on Aug 20 #bcci #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
5 months
Riyan Parag reminds me of a Surya at MI a few years back: Rajasthan Royals bowling coach Shane Bond #IPL2024
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Gaurav Gupta
5 years
Ajinkya Rahane has scored his first century ton in English county season. In 2nd inning he’s batting on 104 for Hampshire team
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Gaurav Gupta
1 month
Rajasthan Royals co-owner Manoj Badale and CEO Rajit Barathhakur arrive for IPL franchises meeting with BCCI at BCCI HQ in Mumbai today #cricket
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Mumbai Ranji Trophy seamer Mohit Avasthi bowls in the Delhi Capitals nets at wankhede 🏟 #MIvsDC #IPL2024
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Gaurav Gupta
3 years
Viacom18 enters into a strategic partnership with LaLiga; MTV India will now be the exclusive home of the football league ~The 3-year exclusive partnership will give the network linear and digital rights across the Indian subcontinent.
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Gaurav Gupta
3 years
Thanks🙏 @vijaylokapally sir for speaking on a TV show behalf of sports journalists about the value of the IPL at this point in time for our fraternity!
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3 months
Mumbai Cricket Association to organise a special function to felicitate Cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar, who will turn 75 on July 10 this year @MumbaiCricAssoc
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Gaurav Gupta
6 months
Very good gesture by the Mumbai Cricket Association to honour former Mumbai captain and ex-chief selector Milind Rege before the Ranji Trophy final at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. The man has served Mumbai Cricket for almost 50 years #ranjitrophyfinal
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Gaurav Gupta
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#breaking Suryakumar Yadav and Shreyas Iyer set to turn out together for Mumbai against Jammu & Kashmir in a Buchi Babu tournament match at Coimbatore..should be fun to watch #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
2 years
#breaking Prolific domestic run-getter Sarfaraz Khan will miss out on the upcoming Irani Cup clash between 2021-22 Ranji Trophy champions Madhya Pradesh and Rest of India due to a finger injury #bcci #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
29 days
A pic of mediapersons covering the inauguration of the iconic Wankhede Stadium 🏟 in Mumbai back in 1975 #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
4 months
A day after he unfortunately missed out from being picked for the Indian team for the T20 World Cup, Rinku Singh, still trying to cope with his sudden exclusion, put up a brave face and obliged a young fan, who was carrying his sketch, for a pic at wankhede stadium..🏟 #IPL2024
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Gaurav Gupta
11 months
The revamped Wankhede 🏟 press box looks all spruced up..well done MCA:) #cricket #bcci #mca
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Gaurav Gupta
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The victorious Karnataka Under-19 team poses with the Cooch Behar Trophy at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, after beating Mumbai in the final #cricket
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Gaurav Gupta
3 months
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Gaurav Gupta
6 months
INDIA'S jan 2021 Gabba heroes Washington sundar and shardul thakur share notes before Mumbai vs Tamil Nadu ranji 🏆 semifinal at mca ground in bkc #RanjiTrophy
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