After all Mumbai’s cricketing legacy is built on active grit, not grandstands. Experts suggest reviving the city’s traditional maidan culture and converting underutilised plots like Mulund dumping ground, Kanjurmarg metro land, or the Eastern Waterfront into versatile cricket spaces, prioritising grassroots development over grandstands

On Polly Umrigar’s birth centenary today, we reproduce the Indian cricket great’s version of the two innings he played, against Pak at Chennai in 1961 and WI at Trinidad in 1962; Test centuries that defined him as a fighting cricketer