Published: Oct 22, 2015, 08:36 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 03:03 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of Day 1 of the Group B game of the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy between Baroda and Mumbai, live from Vadodara. A cliff-hanger against Tamil Nadu helped them reach 14 points, 4 clear of Punjab, who are placed second in Group B. Led by Aditya Tare, Mumbai boast of Shreyas Iyer, Abhishek Nayar, Suryakumar Yadav, Harmeet Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, and Shardul Thakur. Baroda, on the other hand, are placed fifth on the table, and would certainly want to push their home advantage. They will be looking at the likes of Yusuf Pathan, Hardik Pandya, Deepak Hooda, Bhargav Bhatt, and Gagandeep Singh.
Live cricket scores Mumbai 317/3 | Overs 86 | Batting: Shreyas Iyer 167(176), Surya Kumar Yadav 66(140): At stumps, Iyer and Yadav looked in control with the former once again on a song, having scored a superb 176-ball 167 and his innings consitituted of 13 boundaries and four sixes. Meanwhile, Yadav whose 66 was inclusive of four boundaries and one six played second fiddle to the 20-year-old.
Live cricket scores Mumbai 194/3 | Overs 57.2 | Batting: Shreyas Iyer 81(86), Surya Kumar Yadav 24(53): Sagar Mangalorkar who has been consistent for Mumbaiw ith the ball made another breakthrough when he removed Shrideep Mangela on the fifth delivery of the 26th over for a 39-ball 11. The other bowler who struck for the visitors was Akhil Herwadkar, dismissed opener Akhil Herwadkar in the 40th over, leaving Mumbai on 121 for 3.
OUT! Shrideep Mangela LBW S S Mangalorkar 11(39)
OUT! Akhil Herwadkar c Deepak Jagbir Hooda b H H Pandya 67(129)
LUNCH TAKEN VADODARA
Live cricket scores Mumbai 64/1 | Overs 25 | Batting: Akhil Herwadkar 49(80), Shrideep Mangela 11(34) : Ajitesh Argal drew first blood of Mumbai, removed opener Kulkarni for a 32-ball 3 on the fourth delivery of the 12th over. This brought Shrideep on crease when Mumbai had just 22 runs on board. OUT! Dhawal Kulkarni b Ajitesh Argal 3(32)
Live cricket scores Mumbai 22/0 | Overs 10 | Batting: Akhil Herwadkar 18(32), Dhawal Kulkarni 3(27): While Baroda had a poor game against Andhra in the previous level, Mumbai is coming off an excellent one wicket win over Tamil Nadu at home and that will surely help psycologically here. After trailing in the first innings, the 40-times champions bounced back in style. They bowled out the visitors for a total of 95 in the second innings and chased down the target of 236 on the final day, courtesy of Shreyas Iyer’s explosive innings of 83 from 71 balls.
Mumbai’s tournament took off on a low, when they conceded a 6-run first innings lead to Andhra at their den. They turned things around against Punjab at Wankhede: Thakur and Balwinder Sandhu bowled the tourists out for 154 before Iyer hit the fourth-fastest double-hundred by an Indian. With Tare also scoring a rapid 137, Mumbai had enough time to declare with a 415-run lead before Akhil Herwadkar bowled them to an innings victory. They conceded a 140-run lead to Tamil Nadu before Vishal Dabholkar fought back, skittling the tourists for 95. Chasing 236 they eventually won by 1 wicket after being 202 for 4 at one time.
Baroda, too, had a close match against Tamil Nadu at Chepauk. Unfortunately, they lost by 7 runs after securing a 34-run lead. The Railways match at home belonged to Pandya, whose 64 and 8 for 91 (match figures) helped the hosts win by an innings. Unfortunately, after Kedar Devdhar and Swapnil Patil took them to 302 at Vizianagram, Andhra piled up 474 for 6, batting them out of the match.
Squads:
Baroda: Aditya Waghmode (c), Pinal Shah (wk), Bhargav Patel (wk), Yusuf Pathan, Hardik Pandya, Deepak Hooda, Bhargav Bhatt, Kedar Devdhar, Gagandeep Singh, Sagar Mangalorkar, Monil Patel, Babashafi Pathan, Hitesh Solanki, Swapnil Singh, Murtuja Vahore.
Mumbai: Aditya Tare (c & wk), Dhawal Kulkarni, Shreyas Iyer, Abhishek Nayar, Suryakumar Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Vishal Dabholkar, Harmeet Singh, Badre Alam, Akhil Herwadkar, Siddhesh Lad, Shrideep Mangela, Nikhil Patel, Abhishek Raut, Balwinder Sandhu.
