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Mumbai’s star-studded batting line-up imploded spectacularly arsenic the defending champion squandered a winning presumption and slipped to a 15-run decision against Kerala successful the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy astatine the Ekana Cricket Stadium B crushed present connected Thursday.
Needing 49 runs to triumph successful the past 5 overs with six wickets successful hand, Mumbai was bundled retired for 163, with pacer K.M. Asif wreaking havoc with a five-wicket haul.
With 31 runs to get disconnected 18 balls, Asif turned the lucifer connected its caput with a three-wicket over. Sairaj Patil was castled swinging for the hills, and a mates of deliveries later, a cautious Suryakumar Yadav, who unfurled his trademark scoop to fine-leg lone once, recovered deepsquare-leg. Next ball, Mumbai skipper Shardul Thakur got a starring borderline to mid-off, putting Kerala connected the brink of a heist.
The result seemed improbable during Ajinkya Rahane and Sarfaraz Khan’s 80-run confederation for the 2nd wicket, which steadied Mumbai aft Sharafuddeen knocked implicit Ayush Mhatre’s off-stump successful the archetypal over.
Kerala pacer K.M. Asif celebrates aft dismissing Mumbai skipper Shardul Thakur. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA
However, they fell successful speedy succession, with Rahane getting a apical borderline sweeping Vignesh Puthur and Rohan Kunnummal’s stunning dive astatine heavy extra-cover cutting abbreviated Sarfaraz’s stay.
The floodgates opened erstwhile Vignesh had Shivam Dube stumped, acknowledgment to Sanju Samson’s lightning-quick glovework.
Kerala was astatine hazard of a akin illness earlier Sharafuddeen’s 15-ball 35 lower-order cameo. The burly all-rounder, going heavy successful his crease, smashed Shardul for 2 fours and a six successful the last over, which made each the quality successful the end.
Earlier, aft opting to bat, Samson blazed his mode to 46 disconnected 28 balls, a sound built connected coagulated backfoot play. However, a concerning signifier of dismissals emerged erstwhile Samson fell essaying the propulsion for the 4th clip successful 5 innings.
Kerala’s middle-order stumbled arsenic Mohammed Azharuddeen, Salman Nizar and Abdul Bazith perished successful the abstraction of 10 deliveries. With Vishnu Vinod struggling with cramps during his stodgy 40-ball 43, Sharafuddeen’s pyrotechnics yet saved the day.
Later astatine the aforesaid ground, Ashwin Hebbar and Shaik Rasheed’s fifties made airy enactment of Chhattisgarh’s 159-run target, powering Andhra to an eight-wicket win.
The scores: Kerala 178/5 successful 20 overs (Sanju Samson 46, Vishnu Vinod 43 n.o., Mohammed Azharuddeen 32, Sharafuddeen 32) bt Mumbai 163 successful 19.4 overs (Ajinkya Rahane 32, Sarfaraz Khan 52, Suryakumar Yadav 32, KM Asif 5/24). Toss: Kerala.
Assam 175/7 successful 20 overs (Abdul Ajij Kuraishi 57, Nihar Deka 52, Yash Thakur 3/36) bt Vidarbha 117 successful 17.5 overs (Dhruv Shorey 36, Mukhtar Hussain 3/36, Akash Sengupta 3/12). Toss: Vidarbha.
Chhattisgarh 158/6 successful 20 overs (Amandeep Khare 44, Shashank Singh 46) mislaid to Andhra 159/2 successful 18.5 overs (Ashwin Hebbar 50, Shaik Rasheed 59 n.o.). Toss: Chhattisgarh.
Odisha 169/5 successful 20 overs (Aashirwad Swain 48, Soumya Lenka 75 n.o.) bushed Railways 168 successful 20 overs (Suraj Ahuja 39, Akshat Pandey 60, Soumya Lenka 3/50). Toss: Odisha.
