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Ayush Doseja’s 4th 100 of the season, scored successful his maiden lucifer arsenic captain, was the centrepiece of the last time arsenic Delhi wrapped up its Ranji Trophy run with a gully against Group-B table-topper Mumbai connected Sunday.
Doseja’s unbeaten 159 (230b, 11x4, 2x6) stood retired connected an different inconsequential last time astatine the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy ground. When some teams agreed to shingle hands — with aboriginal beverage taken 30 minutes earlier the scheduled interval — Delhi was placed astatine 407 for six successful its 2nd innings.
The destiny of the contention had efficaciously been sealed connected the penultimate time itself, erstwhile Delhi wiped retired Mumbai’s 96-run first-innings pb to extremity the time astatine 206 for four. Any faint hopes Mumbai had of forcing a effect rapidly faded connected Sunday greeting erstwhile nightwatcher Divij Mehra began proceedings with a assured quadrate chopped and a driven bound disconnected Mohit Avasthi’s opening over.
With Mehra playing the aggressor, Doseja, who had resumed connected 62, batted with composure and minimal risk. By the clip Mehra top-edged Onkar Tarmale to substitute Sylvester D’Souza, who completed a good diving drawback astatine heavy third, Doseja had already moved into the nineties.
The left-hander past stamped his authorization connected the innings. He danced down the wicket to off-spinner Himanshu Singh to loft him for a six, moving from 93 to 99, earlier bringing up a well-earned period successful the aforesaid implicit to people a memorable archetypal outing arsenic captain.
Debutant left-hander Sumit Mathur past impressed with his assured strokeplay, sweeping and cutting the spinners with assurance to support the scoreboard ticking. Doseja, meanwhile, went past the 150-run people with easiness and besides breached the 900-run people for the season, underlining his consistency done a hard run for Delhi.
With 3 points earned for securing the first-innings lead, Mumbai finished the radical signifier with 33 points and volition look Karnataka successful the quarterfinal astatine the aforesaid venue from February 6. Delhi’s disappointing season, marked by inconsistency and missed opportunities, ended with 9 points and a seventh-place decorativeness successful the eight-team group.
The scores: Delhi – 1st innings: 221.
Mumbai – 1st innings: 317.
Delhi – 2nd innings: Sanat Sangwan c (sub) Tamore b Tarmale 24, Rahul Dagar lbw b Deshpande 19, Vaibhav Kandpal c Tarmale b Himanshu 61, Aryan Rana c & b Himanshu 21, Ayush Doseja (not out) 159, Divij Mehra c (sub) D’Souza b Tarmale 46, Sumit Mathur b Himanshu 34, Pranav Rajvansi (not out) 21; Extras (b-4, lb-4, nb-2, w-12): 22; Total (for six wkts. successful 105 overs): 407.
Fall of wickets: 1-49, 2-51, 3-100, 4-206, 5-281, 6-339.
Mumbai bowling: Deshpande 16-1-81-1, Avasthi 13-0-53-0, Mulani 23-1-83-0, Tarmale 14-0-49-2, Himanshu 29-4-86-3, Musheer 7-0-31-0, Lad 3-0-16-0.
