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Musheer Khan had a forgettable outing with the willow, but the youngster made up for it with the shot and provided Mumbai with important breakthroughs arsenic the home elephantine gained an precocious manus implicit Chhattisgarh successful its Ranji Trophy Elite Group-D lucifer astatine the MCA-BKC crushed present connected Monday.
After Mumbai added 10 runs to its overnight tally and folded up for 416, Chhattisgarh rode connected Ayush Pandey (50, 89b, 7x4) and Shashank Chandrakar’s (43, 112b, 5x4, 1x6) 85-run opening basal to frustrate the accelerated bowlers.
However, things changed abruptly with left-arm spinner Himanshu Singh breaking the concern arsenic Angkrish Raghuvanshi claimed a crisp drawback astatine silly constituent to region Ayush. Himanshu, coming successful for Tanush Kotian, added 1 much to his wicket tally by dismissing Chandrakar.
With the aboveground offering important turn, Musheer was brought into the onslaught to tighten the noose and helium struck conscionable earlier tea. Chhattisgarh mislaid speedy wickets to extremity different rain-affected time astatine 175 for six, trailing by 241 runs.
As the time progressed and the batters recovered it hard to tackle the spinners, Musheer trapped Sanjeet Desai limb before, and soon aft tea, removed skipper Amandeep Khare. As Ajinkya Rahane grabbed a debased diving drawback astatine slips, Khare raised concerns, but the umpires ruled successful favour of the fielding side.
Musheer’s 2nd spell proved to beryllium the turning constituent arsenic helium managed to outwit the Chhattisgarh batters, earlier the seasoned Shams Mulani returned to enactment with 2 speedy strikes.
As wickets tumbled, hopes rested connected Shashank Singh. But the IPL prima was acold from awesome arsenic helium struggled against rotation throughout. He, however, survived arsenic Tushar Deshpande couldn’t clasp connected to a drawback astatine long-off.
With overnight rainfall starring to a bedewed outfield, it was a delayed start, and with further interruptions, lone 64 overs could beryllium bowled. Before the Mumbai spinners took charge, Aditya Sarwate completed his five-wicket haul.
The scores: Mumbai — 1st innings: Angkrish Raghuvanshi lbw b Ravi Kiran 9, Musheer Khan c & b Sarwate 12, Ajinkya Rahane c Chandrakar b Sarwate 159, Himanshu Singh lbw b Ravi Kiran 0, Siddhesh Lad c Ashutosh b Mandal 80, Sarfaraz Khan c Shashank b Sarvate 1, Shams Mulani c Bareth b Ravi Kiran 39, Akash Anand c Desai b Mandal 61, Shardul Thakur c Mandal b Sarwate 29, Tushar Deshpande c Mandal b Sarwate 9, Irfan Umair (not out) 4; Extras: (b-8, lb-2, nb-3): 13; Total (in 133.3 overs): 416.
Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-36, 3-38, 4-203, 5-204, 6-281, 7-351, 8-399, 9-412.
Chhattisgarh bowling: Ravi Kiran 19-5-53-3, Majumdar 18-2-60-0, Sarwate 41.3-10-103-5, Bareth 12-0-64-0, Mandal 38-5-102-2, Shashank 4-0-18-0, Ashutosh 1-0-6-0.
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 (batting) 20, Ajay Mandal c Raghuvanshi b Mulani 0, Aditya Sarwate (batting) 3; Extras: (lb-7, nb-2): 9; Total (for six wkts. successful 60.3 overs): 175.
Fall of wickets: 1-85, 2-114, 3-149, 4-151, 5-163, 6-167.
Mumbai bowling: Shardul 3-0-24-0, Deshpande 5-0-28-0, Mulani 19-5-41-2, Himanshu 14-2-33-2, Irfan 6-2-13-0, Musheer 13.3-1-29-2.
