With the dismissals of Sahil Kukreja, Wasim Jaffer, Hiken Shah, Rohit Sharma and Amol Muzumda, Mumbai's scoreboard read zero for five wickets. Abhishek Nair's dismissal soon left the score at 1 for six, leaving former Mumbai India batsman Praveen Amre in his first season as the team's head coach looking for heroics to rescue the team from this huge mess. Come forward to save.
Amre's call was answered by Vinayak Samant who scored 66 runs in 136 balls and Wilkin Mota scored 33 runs in 74 balls and Nilesh Kulkarni scored 17 runs in 105 balls and took Mumbai to 145 runs. Mumbai bowled out Baroda in defense of 237. 173 runs and entered the final after winning by 63 runs.Eventually, they defeated Bengal to win the Ranji Trophy for the 37th time.
So, it's no surprise that Amre's book is titled 'Zero for Five', a refreshing change from the phrases or cricket terminology used as titles for predominantly cricket-written books. "As a player or a coach, there are certain games which are very important for your career. This was one of those games - I remember it in my first year of coaching Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy in 2006/07. “I was the head coach then and I had a very bad start, losing the first three games and we had to win every game from there, otherwise we would have fallen behind.We came back winning all the games to play the semi-finals against Barod. At the Moti Bagh Stadium, on a good day, we were at zero for five and as a coach, I felt that was the toughest situation for me to handle,” Amre said in an interview with IANS on the sidelines of the book launch at the National Said in a special interview. Rajdhani, which featured Ricky Ponting, Sourav Ganguly and James Hopes.
Amre, who scored 103 off 288 balls on his Test debut against South Africa in Durban in 1992, believes his book is also about bringing out the never-say-die attitude associated with Mumbai. “This book is also about how the Mumbai team bounced back – all credit goes to the players who handled the situation well.The partnership between Vinayak Samant and Wilkin Mota, Nilesh Kulkarni also batted well and got us some runs on the board.
"After that, we bowled well to win the game. We all enjoyed being in the final and it was also Rohit Sharma's first year in the Mumbai Ranji Trophy team. Then, we beat Bengal in the final, where Sourav Ganguly also Were playing." And won Ranji Trophy."Although I have been coaching in the IPL for almost 15 years, this match against Baroda was a very important match for me to gain the confidence that I can coach well. Also, it is all about that confidence. It's about making a comeback anywhere, like we were at zero for five,” he said.
In the 2014/15 Ranji Trophy season, there was a feeling of déjà vu for Amre and Mumba when the team lost to Jammu and Kashmir, after Railways took a first innings lead against them. But Mumbai's trademark fightback attitude helped them reach the semi-finals, where they lost to eventual champions Karnataka."If the 2006/07 season was Rohit's debut year, the 2014/15 season was Shreya Iyer's debut year. We performed very poorly to lose to Jammu and Kashmir in that game - remember the news about it in Parliament. But then Mumbai cricket also has a culture of senior players coming to help the team. "After that match against Jammu and Kashmir, I remember calling Sachin Tendulkar because the tea was very hot. It had gone bad. So I wanted someone to motivate the team and Sachin came for the Mumbai Ranji team after a phone call.He spoke very nicely to everyone at tea and that year, we went to the semi-finals.
"In Mumbai, not just the coaches - even the senior players contribute a lot to the team - like Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Sachin - all are very keen, keep Mumbai cricket close to their hearts and their Let's think about the contribution." Success,” said Amre, who played 11 Tests and 37 ODIs for India.
After coaching Mumbai in domestic cricket, Amre is now the assistant coach of IP team Delhi Capitals, where he has been since 2016 and has also worked in scouting. He has also stints in the IPL with Pune Warriors India and Mumbai Indians as well as Seattle Orcas.in Major League Cricket (MLC) in the United States. He sees a big difference between coaching a domestic team and an IP franchise. "It is very different - like in franchise cricket, there are different nationalities and players. As the head coach of Mumbai, it was very easy to go and motivate the team, but here it is different because I have worked very hard at the franchise level. Have worked hard." I am very fortunate to work with Soura and Ricky here in the IPL.,
The Impact Player rule has been a big talking point in IPL 2024, especially with batting scores resembling the towering heights of skyscrapers in metros. But Amre has a different view on this.
"It's good for cricket because ultimately people want to see boundaries and sixes. Even Ricky Ponting or Sourav Ganguly had mentioned about the importance of power-hitting because the ability to hit sixes is very helpful. No one had thought of this in 40 overs."More than 500 runs will be scored in an IPL match." So, it's good; Cricket is improving, people are taking interest and every team is good, like they can beat anyone, which is the beauty of IPL. I am sure the BCCI technical committee will be there (to look at the future of the rule), because they will keep taking decisions in the same way, whatever is good for the IPL.
He also agreed to the proposal of U23 CK Nayudu Trophy with the toss. "There are times when home ground advantage comes and the whole idea behind BCCI promoting all this is to get match-winning players. Sometimes when good players are available, the toss matters.So, they want to do that and see how it benefits players and takes teams to the next level."
In his extensive association with cricket, first as a player and now as a coach besides being a scout and selector, Amre has rarely looked emotional. Amre's soft-spoken voice exudes emotion when asked about DC captain Rishabh Pant, whom he has identified as a promising young player for the franchise. "I would like to see him making a comeback to the game in Mullanpur. Was very happy from the bottom of my heart to see, because it was really tough not only for Rishabh but for any other cricketer to make a comeback after being away from the game for almost 1 month.
“We have to give credit to Rishabh for how he fought to come back winners in the game.Not only in batting, he has also kept wickets and is the leading run-scorer for Delhi Capitals this season. I really wish them all the best for the (T20) World Cup.”
Amre shined in his words by signing Jake-Fraser McGurk and Abishé Porel, two young batsmen DC scouted this season. "We need to give credit to our scouting team because both of them have the talent which is very rare to be honest. They have done a good job in this format and have proven themselves with a strike-rate which is beyond others. Is ahead of."
Amre's call was answered by Vinayak Samant who scored 66 runs in 136 balls and Wilkin Mota scored 33 runs in 74 balls and Nilesh Kulkarni scored 17 runs in 105 balls and took Mumbai to 145 runs. Mumbai bowled out Baroda in defense of 237. 173 runs and entered the final after winning by 63 runs.Eventually, they defeated Bengal to win the Ranji Trophy for the 37th time.
So, it's no surprise that Amre's book is titled 'Zero for Five', a refreshing change from the phrases or cricket terminology used as titles for predominantly cricket-written books. "As a player or a coach, there are certain games which are very important for your career. This was one of those games - I remember it in my first year of coaching Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy in 2006/07. “I was the head coach then and I had a very bad start, losing the first three games and we had to win every game from there, otherwise we would have fallen behind.We came back winning all the games to play the semi-finals against Barod. At the Moti Bagh Stadium, on a good day, we were at zero for five and as a coach, I felt that was the toughest situation for me to handle,” Amre said in an interview with IANS on the sidelines of the book launch at the National Said in a special interview. Rajdhani, which featured Ricky Ponting, Sourav Ganguly and James Hopes.
Amre, who scored 103 off 288 balls on his Test debut against South Africa in Durban in 1992, believes his book is also about bringing out the never-say-die attitude associated with Mumbai. “This book is also about how the Mumbai team bounced back – all credit goes to the players who handled the situation well.The partnership between Vinayak Samant and Wilkin Mota, Nilesh Kulkarni also batted well and got us some runs on the board.
"After that, we bowled well to win the game. We all enjoyed being in the final and it was also Rohit Sharma's first year in the Mumbai Ranji Trophy team. Then, we beat Bengal in the final, where Sourav Ganguly also Were playing." And won Ranji Trophy."Although I have been coaching in the IPL for almost 15 years, this match against Baroda was a very important match for me to gain the confidence that I can coach well. Also, it is all about that confidence. It's about making a comeback anywhere, like we were at zero for five,” he said.
In the 2014/15 Ranji Trophy season, there was a feeling of déjà vu for Amre and Mumba when the team lost to Jammu and Kashmir, after Railways took a first innings lead against them. But Mumbai's trademark fightback attitude helped them reach the semi-finals, where they lost to eventual champions Karnataka."If the 2006/07 season was Rohit's debut year, the 2014/15 season was Shreya Iyer's debut year. We performed very poorly to lose to Jammu and Kashmir in that game - remember the news about it in Parliament. But then Mumbai cricket also has a culture of senior players coming to help the team. "After that match against Jammu and Kashmir, I remember calling Sachin Tendulkar because the tea was very hot. It had gone bad. So I wanted someone to motivate the team and Sachin came for the Mumbai Ranji team after a phone call.He spoke very nicely to everyone at tea and that year, we went to the semi-finals.
"In Mumbai, not just the coaches - even the senior players contribute a lot to the team - like Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Sachin - all are very keen, keep Mumbai cricket close to their hearts and their Let's think about the contribution." Success,” said Amre, who played 11 Tests and 37 ODIs for India.
After coaching Mumbai in domestic cricket, Amre is now the assistant coach of IP team Delhi Capitals, where he has been since 2016 and has also worked in scouting. He has also stints in the IPL with Pune Warriors India and Mumbai Indians as well as Seattle Orcas.in Major League Cricket (MLC) in the United States. He sees a big difference between coaching a domestic team and an IP franchise. "It is very different - like in franchise cricket, there are different nationalities and players. As the head coach of Mumbai, it was very easy to go and motivate the team, but here it is different because I have worked very hard at the franchise level. Have worked hard." I am very fortunate to work with Soura and Ricky here in the IPL.,
The Impact Player rule has been a big talking point in IPL 2024, especially with batting scores resembling the towering heights of skyscrapers in metros. But Amre has a different view on this.
"It's good for cricket because ultimately people want to see boundaries and sixes. Even Ricky Ponting or Sourav Ganguly had mentioned about the importance of power-hitting because the ability to hit sixes is very helpful. No one had thought of this in 40 overs."More than 500 runs will be scored in an IPL match." So, it's good; Cricket is improving, people are taking interest and every team is good, like they can beat anyone, which is the beauty of IPL. I am sure the BCCI technical committee will be there (to look at the future of the rule), because they will keep taking decisions in the same way, whatever is good for the IPL.
He also agreed to the proposal of U23 CK Nayudu Trophy with the toss. "There are times when home ground advantage comes and the whole idea behind BCCI promoting all this is to get match-winning players. Sometimes when good players are available, the toss matters.So, they want to do that and see how it benefits players and takes teams to the next level."
In his extensive association with cricket, first as a player and now as a coach besides being a scout and selector, Amre has rarely looked emotional. Amre's soft-spoken voice exudes emotion when asked about DC captain Rishabh Pant, whom he has identified as a promising young player for the franchise. "I would like to see him making a comeback to the game in Mullanpur. Was very happy from the bottom of my heart to see, because it was really tough not only for Rishabh but for any other cricketer to make a comeback after being away from the game for almost 1 month.
“We have to give credit to Rishabh for how he fought to come back winners in the game.Not only in batting, he has also kept wickets and is the leading run-scorer for Delhi Capitals this season. I really wish them all the best for the (T20) World Cup.”
Amre shined in his words by signing Jake-Fraser McGurk and Abishé Porel, two young batsmen DC scouted this season. "We need to give credit to our scouting team because both of them have the talent which is very rare to be honest. They have done a good job in this format and have proven themselves with a strike-rate which is beyond others. Is ahead of."
