Mumbai Cricket Association

The Mumbai cricket Association or MCA (Marathi: मुंबई क्रिकेट संघ) is the governing body for cricket in Mumbai and its surrounding regions like Thane and Navi Mumbai. The association comes under west zone. The Association was established in 1930 and it has a Constitution. Sharad Pawar was re-elected as the president of Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) after defeating Vijay Patil by a margin of 27 votes at the biennial elections held in Mumbai. Pawar defeated Patil 172-145 in a straight contest for MCA president.

The Mumbai cricket team is the team for The Mumbai cricket association in the Ranji Trophy. The team has won over 41 titles, the most recent being in 2015-16. It has also come runner-up in the final of the Ranji Trophy a total of 4 times. The association owns the Wankhede Stadium, near Churchgate railway station built in 1975. The office of the association is located in the same building.

To promote democratic values and to bring in new ideas and enthusiasm, the constitution provides that no individual can continue in any post for more than eight years (four terms of 2 years) consecutively. After completing 8 years in a position he/she can occupy the same post after a gap of 4 years (2 terms of 2 years each).

The Mumbai Cricket Association does not have a system of individual membership. Rather it has 350 ordinary members and 25 Associate members which are affiliated to the Association. Only ordinary members are eligible to vote during elections. If any ordinary member is found to be inactive in terms of cricket activity for more than 3 years the Club to which he/she belongs is demoted as an Associate member and if the club is still inactive for 3 years it automatically loses its membership.

Currently the association is headed by Mr. Ravi Savant who has 22 years with the Mumbai Cricket Association during which he held the positions of Hon. Vice President and Hon. Treasurer before being elected as the interim President of the Mumbai Cricket Association. He has also been a member of the Finance Committee and Chairman of the Umpires Committee with the BCCI in the past. He was elected as an interim President after the demise of ex-President Vilasrao Deshmukh who was Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences.

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