For cricketwallah: Amol Muzumdar highest Ranji run-getter
dodo
HIGH, ME AND MYSELF
Muzumdar Goes Past Kaypee, Becomes Ranji’s Highest Run-Getter
K Shriniwas Rao I TNN
Mumbai: It was only apt that the world’s highest run-scorer was in the
same city as his long time friend and teammate when the latter became
the highest rungetter in the Ranji Trophy.
The Indian team flight, with Sachin Tendulkar on board, landed in
Guwahati the same afternoon when former Mumbai player and captain Amol
Muzumdar, currently playing for Assam, scored the required nine runs
to break the record of Punjab’s Amarjeet Kaypee.
Muzumdar is now to the vast Indian domestic circuit what Tendulkar
is to the world. At 7,640 runs, he is on unchartered land as far as
the country’s premier domestic tourney is concerned. Muzumdar left
Mumbai this season to captain Assam, a Plate Division team, and was 31
runs shy of the feat ahead of the match that began on November 3
against Rajasthan. The veteran managed 22 in the first innings and 25
in second. He is now 17 runs ahead of Kaypee’s 7,623.
Muzumdar is the same young boy who was padded up when Tendulkar
and Vinod Kambli constructed that mammoth 664-run alliance for
Shardhashram Vidyamandir (English) in February 1988. With seven Ranji
titles to his credit, and one as captain too, he wore the pride of
playing for Mumbai up his sleeve as fiercely as Tendulkar did. At the
start of the 2009 season, when the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA)
left him out of the Buchi Babu squad, it was only then that he felt it
was time to make a move.
“It doesn’t really matter (that the record didn’t come with the
Mumbai cap on). It’s an Indian record,’’ he said, that certain sense
of satisfaction unmistakable as he spoke. Till late evening, there
hadn’t been a single call from MCA where he spent a decade and half,
but Muzumdar surely was flooded by congratulatory messages from former
Mumbai teammates. “It’s quite an emotional moment, not a one-off
achievement that I can dedicate to any single person. (Ramakant)
Achrekar sir (his coach), my parents, especially my dad who taught me
how to hold a bat, my mom and wife who have been pillars of strength —
they all played a role in my reaching here,’’ he said.
And how did he get there, “My first shot in domestic cricket was a
coverdrive and so was the one with which I got the record,’’ he
revealed. That first shot also helped him score a mammoth 260 on his
Ranji debut for as a 20-year-old. Now as he sits on the mountain of
7,640 runs, Muzumdar’s certainly more hardened.
Suresh K S
> From TOI
> Muzumdar is the same young boy who was padded up when Tendulkar
> and Vinod Kambli constructed that mammoth 664-run alliance for
> Shardhashram Vidyamandir (English) in February 1988.
I've wondered about what happened to him. He and Praveen Amre and
Vinod Kambli. They were such talented youngsters, all from the
celebrated coach. Never made it big into the Indian Test team. Amre
played that courageous knock in RSA and Kambli was prolific in the
initial days. Wonder how and why the faded out.
Suresh K S
Mohan
> On Nov 7, 1:43 pm, dodo <dodo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From TOI
> > Muzumdar is the same young boy who was padded up when Tendulkar
> > and Vinod Kambli constructed that mammoth 664-run alliance for
> > Shardhashram Vidyamandir (English) in February 1988.
>
> I've wondered about what happened to him. He and Praveen Amre and
Dravid, Ganguly and Laxman happened.
Mohan
tendulkar.com
> I've wondered about what happened to him. He and Praveen Amre and
> Vinod Kambli. They were such talented youngsters, all from the
> celebrated coach. Never made it big into the Indian Test team. Amre
> played that courageous knock in RSA and Kambli was prolific in the
> initial days. Wonder how and why the faded out.
>
Here's a thought. May be they only had 'talent' defined by idiots vs
actual talent required to succeed.