Rescue mission: It was once more all the way down to Shardul to save lots of his facet the blushes.
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The venue might have modified. So did the opposition. But the development of Mumbai’s batting continued within the Ranji Trophy ultimate towards Vidarbha. The top-six caved in but once more earlier than the decrease order – led by the fearless Shardul Thakur – gave respectability to the whole on a day dominated by bowlers.
Had it not been Shardul’s counter-attacking 75, Mumbai would have struggled to placed on 224 after being inserted in to bat on Day One on the Wankhede Stadium. Him and Dhawal Kulkarni, that includes in his final match for Mumbai as injured Mohit Avasthi’s alternative, then left Vidarbha reeling at 31 for 3 at stumps.
The Mumbai essay was a exceptional session of two stints of batters’ domination on both facet of bowling supremacy. Prithvi Shaw’s trademark cover-drives off Umesh Yadav and Bhupen Lalwani’s flicks by way of midwicket had been a deal with to the eyes because the Sunday crowd constructed up in anticipation of a run-feast.
Yash Thakur – the first-change pacer, struck by jagging one away from Lalwani and compelled him into an edge to captain Akshay Wadkar.
The dismissal triggered a collapse as Vidarbha picked six for 30 to go away Mumbai reeling at 111 for six from 81 for no loss.
Harsh Dubey – the left-arm spinner who was introduced in place of Akshay Wakhare – struck gold in a protracted spell having acquired rid of Prithvi Shaw , Musheer Khan and captain Ajinkya Rahane.
Umesh Yadav discovered Shreyas Iyer in no-man’s land on the crease to be caught-behind. In got here Shardul and took the bowlers head on.
Tushar Deshpande hung round because the duo’s 42-run affiliation helped Mumbai cross the 200-run mark.
The scores:
Mumbai — 1st innings: Prithvi Shaw b Dubey 46 (63b, 5×4), Bhupen Lalwani c Wadkar b Thakur 37 (64b, 4×4), Musheer Khan lbw b Dubey 6 (12b, 1×4), Ajinkya Rahane c Shorey b Dubey 7 (35b), Shreyas Iyer c Karun b Umesh 7 (15b, 1×4), Hardik Tamore c Wadkar b Thakare 5 (41b), Shams Mulani lbw b Thakur 13 (37b, 1×6), Shardul Thakur c Dubey b Umesh 75 (69b, 8×4, 3×6), Tanush Kotian c Wadkar b Thakur 8 (12b, 1×4), Tushar Deshpande run out 14 (34b, 2×4), Dhawal Kulkarni (not out) 0 (7b); Extras (b-2, lb-2, nb-2): 6; Total (in 64.3 overs): 224.
Fall of wickets: 1-81 (Lalwani, 19.6 overs), 2-89 (Shaw, 22.2), 3-92 (Musheer, 24.2), 4-99 (Shreyas, 27.5), 5-111 (Tamore, 37.4), 6-111 (Rahane, 38.3), 7-154 (Shams, 47.4), 8-176 (Kotian, 51.4), 9-218 (Deshpande, 62.1).
Vidarbha bowling: Umesh 13.3-2-43-2, Thakare 16-6-36-1, Dubey 20-3-62-3, Thakur 11-2-54-3, Sarvate 4-0-25-0.
Vidarbha — 1st innings: Atharva Taide (batting) 21 (46b, 2×4), Dhruv Shorey lbw b Shardul 0 (3b), Aman Mokhade c Tamore b Kulkarni 8 (15b, 2×4), Karun Nair c Tamore b Kulkarni 0 (12b), Aditya Thakare (batting) 0 (4b); Extras (nb-2): 2; Total (for 3 wkts. in 13 overs): 31.
Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Shorey, 2.3), 2-20 (Mokhade, 7.2), 3-24 (Karun, 11.3).
Mumbai bowling: Shardul 5-0-14-1, Kulkarni 6-2-9-2, Deshpande 2-0-8-0.
Toss: Vidarbha.
