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Arshin Kulkarni made optimum usage of the reprieves and went connected to people his 2nd List A period arsenic Maharashtra halted Mumbai’s unbeaten tally successful the Vijay Hazare Trophy with a thumping 128-run triumph present connected Saturday.
After Maharashtra opted to bat connected a foggy Saturday, openers Kulkarni (114, 114b, 11x4, 3x6) and Prithvi Shaw (71, 75b, 10x4, 1x6) acceptable the code with a 140-run partnership. With skipper Shardul Thakur limping disconnected the crushed successful his seventh over, Mumbai mislaid the plot. And, arsenic the aboveground eased out, Shaw and Kulkarni flexed their muscles arsenic Maharashtra enactment up a mammoth 366 for four.
The young Kulkarni held fort portion Shaw, who looked acceptable for a hundred, was trapped leg-before by Musheer Khan. The left-arm spinner erupted successful solemnisation aft providing the breakthrough. However, the happiness was short-lived arsenic Maharashtra regrouped with skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad’s 52-ball-66 (7x4).
A sloppy fielding amusement fto Mumbai down arsenic it dropped much than 5 catches, and with nary of the bowlers making an impact, Kulkarni and Gaikwad’s 108-run concern enactment Maharashtra connected a steadfast footing.
Even though Kulkarni was caught astatine screen disconnected a Tushar Deshpande transportation and Shams Mulani cleaned up Ruturaj, Maharashtra managed to enactment up a large total, riding connected Ramakrishna Ghosh’s unbeaten 27-ball 64 (3x4, 5x6). The all-rounder spared nary of the bowlers and picked up 30 runs disconnected Sylvester D’Souza.
Chasing a daunting total, Mumbai was ne'er successful the game. Yashasvi Jaiswal lasted conscionable 9 deliveries, and Musheer fell for a duck disconnected Pradeep Dadhe arsenic Mumbai mislaid 2 wickets for conscionable 4 runs. Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Siddhesh Lad rebuilt with fifties, and forged a 99-run basal for the 3rd wicket, earlier Satyajeet Bachhav trapped the second leg-before.
With Sarfaraz Khan missing retired owed to a stiffness connected the leg, Mumbai’s middle-order crumbled arsenic neither debutant Chinmay Sutar nor Hardik Tamore could amusement resilience. Raghuvanshi fought a lone conflict earlier falling 8 runs abbreviated of what could person been his maiden List A period (88b, 9x4, 2x6).
Shardul returned to bat and struggled to instrumentality singles. He lasted conscionable 5 deliveries, and with his exit, Mumbai’s hopes besides went up successful smoke.
