Apollo Club’s Angkrish Raghuvanshi selected in India U19 World Cup squad

Apollo Club is one of the finest cricket clubs in Mumbai. Founded since 1980 by Mr. Farooq Patel, Apollo Club was registered at the MCA (Mumbai Cricket Association) in the same year. A couple of decades later, Mr. Farooq’s son, Mr. Shafique Patel took over the reins as he became the secretary of the Club. Apart from looking after his Club, Mr. Shafique has been a Committee member of MCA for the last 10 years. Currently he is also the Stadium and Maidan committee member for MCA.

Apollo Club boasts of some of the great cricket coaches and mentors, including Abhishek Nayar, Vinayak Mane, Roshan Khan, Khodadad Bhai, to name a few. CricketGraph got in touch with Roshan Khan, who works as a mentor and a guide helping in the Club administration and on the ground.

Khan said “We strive to promote young talents and under-privileged cricketers in our own capacity. Cricket was never a business for us. It has always been our passion. Together as a team, we work towards identifying new talent and encouraging them to scale greater heights. We work hard towards ensuring that our players get the best possible cricketing facilities as well as exposure through matches.”

Apollo Club has been participating in various MCA tournaments on a regular basis and is engrossed in all tournament related activities of A and B division. Khan averred, “Apollo Club is in the “B” division in Kanga League also plays under 14 & 16 tournament organised by MCA and we are putting all our efforts every year for best performance. Our boys have given their best and have succeeded breaking into India A U19, Mumbai Ranji Team and Maharashtra Ranji Team.”

Prashant Solanki and Shivam Malhotra are a part of Mumbai Ranji Team, while Divyang Hinganekar and Sunil Yadav play for the Maharashtra Ranji Team, Prateek Sargade who played for Puducherry. Apart from these four players, there are other players like Yash Singh, Vedant Khambe and Shahid Dalvi, who have made it to the Mumbai U 25 probables.

Another upcoming talent is the 16-year old Nutan Goel. He is a 16-year old batsman who has been scoring tons of runs at the school level. He has the capacity to take his game to the next level in the near future.

Recently, one of the star players of Apollo Club, Angkrish Raghuvanshi made the cut for the India U-19 World Cup squad. The Delhi-born cricketer came to Mumbai at the age of 11 and for the last six years he has been working hard to play cricket at the highest level. Khan shared, “Angkrish is a 17-year old opening batsman. He is a technically sound player and is a good stroke-maker. He was also a part of Mumbai U-19. In a few of his recent matches, he scored plenty of runs against quality Ranji bowling attacks. Angkrish has the skill and temperament to play for India in the coming years.”