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Ayush Pandey’s gritty ton thwarted Mumbai’s bid for an outright triumph against Chhattisgarh contempt the location squad enforcing a follow-on successful their Group-D Ranji Trophy fixture.
At the MCA-BKC crushed connected Tuesday, the seasoned spinner Shams Mulani claimed yet different five-wicket haul arsenic Mumbai bundled retired Chhattisgarh for 217 successful the archetypal innings, and aimed for a triumph to drawback those important six points.
Mulani | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI
Enjoying a pb of 199 runs, the Mumbai campy looked assured of picking up 10 wickets successful the 2nd essay, and 2 aboriginal wickets further boosted its chances.
However, with Ayush (117 not out, 168b, 17x4, 1x6) bringing up his 2nd First Class period and forging an unbroken 86-run concern with skipper Amandeep Khare, Mumbai had to contented itself with 3 points by virtuousness of the first-innings lead.
The 22-year-old Ayush was successful nary unreserved to people runs, and having scored a 50 successful the archetypal innings, helium knew helium conscionable had to enactment calm and execute his plans connected a aboveground that was getting easier to bat on.
Mumbai persisted with 3 spinners – Mulani, Musheer Khan and Himanshu Singh – who claimed 1 wicket apiece and of the 58 overs, lone 7 were bowled by accelerated bowlers. Mumbai skipper Shardul Thakur, who did not vessel successful the 2nd innings, aboriginal confirmed that it was a conscious determination to springiness a interruption to the pacers.
Even arsenic Chhattisgarh mislaid a mates of wickets early, Ayush took an assertive attack against the left-arm spinners, wanting to people disconnected the incoming deliveries. Against Himanshu, helium played much connected the off-side to guarantee that determination were nary slip-ups.
Earlier, arsenic Mulani furrowed the process and Chhattisgarh mislaid its past 4 wickets for 42 runs, Mumbai went all-out for a win, but successful the end, it was a dull draw.
The scores: Mumbai — 1st innings: 416.
Chhattisgarh — 1st innings: Ayush Pandey c Raghuvanshi b Himanshu 50, Shashank Chandrakar c Sarfaraz b Himanshu 43, Ashutosh Singh c Raghuvanshi b Mulani 34, Sanjeet Desai lbw b Musheer 15, Amandeep Khare c Rahane b Musheer 1, Shashank Singh c Rahane b Himanshu 33, Ajay Mandal c Raghuvanshi b Mulani 0, Aditya Sarwate c Rahane b Mulani 11, Vasudev Bareth c Shardul b Mulani 9, Sourabh Majumdar c Shardul b Mulani 6, Ravi Kiran (not out) 0; Extras: (lb-12, nb-2, b-1): 15; Total (in 76.5 overs): 217.
Fall of wickets: 1-85, 2-114, 3-149, 4-151, 5-163, 6-167, 7-198, 8-198, 9-212.
Mumbai bowling: Shardul 3-0-24-0, Deshpande 5-0-28-0, Mulani 26.5-8-59-5, Himanshu 21-6-42-3, Irfan 6-2-13-0, Musheer 15-1-38-2.
Chhattisgarh — 2nd innings: Ayush Pandey (not out) 117, Shashank Chandrakar lbw b Himanshu 11, Ashutosh Singh c Rahane b Musheer 17, Sanjeet Desai b Mulani 26, Amandeep Khare (not out) 26; Extras: (b-4, lb-1): 5; Total (for 3 wkts. successful 58 overs) 202.
Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-57, 3-116.
Mumbai bowling: Irfan 3-0-11-0, Himanshu 23-5-66-1, Mulani 19-4-81-1, Musheer 9-2-31-1, Deshpande 4-1-8-0.
