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As Shreyas Iyer returned to competitory cricket aft a agelong wounded lay-off, helium made optimum usage of 2 reprieves and went connected to people a 53-ball-82 (10x4, 3x6) arsenic Mumbai entered the quarterfinals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, with a seven-run triumph against Himachal Pradesh present connected Tuesday.
With dense fog starring to a delayed start, the Elite Group C fixture was reduced to a 33-over-a-side affair. And, enactment successful to bat successful a captious game, Shreyas and Musheer Khan (73, 51b, 8x4, 3x6) led Mumbai’s fightback aft it mislaid Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sarfaraz Khan aboriginal and guided the squad to 299 for nine.
However, Himachal didn’t spell down without a fight. With Pukhraj Mann, Ankush Bains and Mayank Dagar scoring fifties, Mumbai had tense moments until the last over, wherever it had to support 12 runs.
But Shivam Dube (four for 68) held his nervus and helped Mumbai publication a berth successful the quarterfinals, on with Punjab, which defeated Goa by six wickets.
Shreyas’ innings, though, was the item of the day. As nationalist selector R.P. Singh watched the proceedings astatine the Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, Shreyas initially looked jittery, and was dropped doubly astatine slips by Innesh Mahajan.
But the stand-in Mumbai skipper regained his composure, and forged an 82-run concern for the 3rd wicket with Musheer. He targetted the left-arm spinners, scoring 27 and 22 runs respectively disconnected Dagar and Kushal Pal (three for 52). With the aboveground easing out, some Shreyas and Musheer looked set, earlier the second was caught astatine covers by Dagar disconnected Kushal. However, Shreyas rebuilt with Suryakumar Yadav, who entertained the assemblage with a mates of sixes and a four, earlier falling to Kushal.
Sairaj Patil’s nine-ball 25 ensured that Mumbai did not suffer the crippled contempt Shreyas missing retired connected a ton, aft being caught astatine mid-wicket disconnected a Kushal delivery.
Chasing a gangly total, Himachal mislaid a mates of wickets successful the opening implicit earlier opening its tally. But it fought backmost with Mann and Bains adding 111 runs for the 3rd wicket. However, losing wickets successful clusters, Himachal fell short, contempt Amanpreet Singh’s 21-ball-42.
