Mumbai 103/2 | Live Cricket Score, Mumbai vs Punjab, Ranji Trophy 2015-16, Group B match, Day 1 at Mumbai: End of day’s play

Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of Day One of the Ranji Trophy 2015-16 Group B game between Mumbai and Punjab at Mumbai. Harbhajan Singh’s absence means that Yuvraj Singh is leading a powerful Punjab side against Mumbai. Mumbai who are the best Ranji team since the inception of the trophy has not performed well in the last two Ranji Trophies. Their performance in the first match of this year’s Ranji Trophy was also not good. That aside they would look to play well in this match against Punjab. However, Punjab players are in good form and most of their batters played exceedingly well in their last match hence it won’t be easy for Mumbai. Read all Ranji Trophy 2015-16 team previews here

Although Punjab won the last match convincingly, still they cannot take this match lightly because it is against the best Ranji team ever— Mumbai. Punjab beat Railways by an innings and 126  runs on Day Four of the Ranji Trophy 2015-16 Group B encounter at Mohali. Railways were always in danger of the innings defeat starting the fourth and final day of the game. Varun Khanna backed up the hard work of the Punjab batsmen by picking up as many as eight wickets for just 97 runs to bowl out Railways for a score of 282 in their second innings. Punjab will be delighted with their work and a home win and will hope to build on it going further into the tournament.

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Live cricket scores Mumbai 103/2 | Overs 18 | Batting: Shreyas Iyer 61(43), Surya Kumar Yadav 16(20):
Mumbai are in commanding position in this game. After bowling out Punjab for 154 they replied with 103 for the loss of two wickets by the end of day 1. The manner in which Mumbai scored their runs needs special mention. They batted at a run rate of 5.72 which is very impressive.

OUT! Shrideep Mangela c Khera b Barinder Singh Sran 7(25), Akhil Herwadkar c Khera b Siddharth Kaul 19(20)

Live cricket scores Mumbai 1/0 | Overs 1 | Batting: Shrideep Mangela 1(1), Akhil Herwadkar 0(5):
Mumbai will be looking to take a healthy first innings lead after bowling out the opposition on 154. They are 1/0 as of now.

Live cricket scores Punjab 154 | Overs 57 | Batting: Barinder Singh Sran 9(10):
Punjab are bowled out on 154. Shardul and Abhishek Nayar were the pick of the bowlers. Both of them took four wickets each.

OUT! Gitansh Khera c Kumar Yadav b BS Sandhu 32(49), Sarbjeet Ladda c AP Tare b BS Sandhu 6(33), Varun Khanna c AP Tare b Shardul 0(3)

Live cricket scores Punjab 127/7 | Overs 32 | Batting: Gitansh Khera 19(30), Sarbjeet Ladda 1(16): Punjab are losing wickets in a heap. After Yuvraj’s fall, Punjab lost the next four wickets for 50 runs. Punjab will be hoping that they at least reach 200 in their first innings to give some respite to their bowlers when they come to field.

OUT! Uday Kaul run out SD Lad 13(61) Himanshu Chawla c Harmeet Singh b Shardul 20(23), Jiwanjot Singh c&b BS Sandhu 11(52), Siddharth Kaul b Dhawal Kulkarni 3(16)

Live cricket scores Punjab 75/3 | Overs 32 | Batting: Uday Kaul 6(52) Himanshu Chawla 11(12): Yuvraj Singh gets out, things are getting ugly for Punjab. They are now 82 for four, Mumbai now has the upper hand.

OUT! Yuvraj Singh c AP Tare b BS Sandhu 13(19)

Live cricket scores Punjab 75/3 | Overs 32 | Batting: Yuvraj Singh 13(18), Uday Kaul 6(46):
Yuvraj Singh hits another beautifully timed four and takes his score to 13. Uday Kaul is batting very slowly, maybe he will up the tempo later on.

Live cricket scores Punjab 69/3 | Overs 30 | Batting: Yuvraj Singh 7(12), Uday Kaul 6(40):
Yuvraj Singh has hit one four in his innings so far. He is batting on seven along with Uday Kaul who is batting on six. Punjab will bank on Yuvraj Singh for scoring a big one, he missed out in the first match to convert his start into a fifty or hundred.

Live cricket scores Punjab 64/3 | Overs 27 | Batting: Yuvraj Singh 4(11), Uday Kaul 4(28):  Finally, Yuvraj Singh has come out to the middle but he has a tough job in hand. Punjab are tottering on 64/3. Yuvraj needs to steady the innings before he starts playing his natural game.

OUT! Mandeep Singh c Harmeet Singh b Shardul 11(11)

Live cricket scores Punjab 57/2 | Overs 24 | Batting:Uday Kaul 2(21), Mandeep Singh 11(8):
Punjab have lost both their openers cheaply. They will be missing Gurkeerat Singh a lot in this game. Gurkeerat scored a double century in his last game and was picked for India’s ODI squad. Uday Kaul and Mandeep Singh need to take Punjab at least beyond 150 before flamboyant batsman Yuvraj Singh comes to the middle.

OUT! Manan Vohra C Tare b Shardul 34(65), Jiwanjot Singh c&b Sandhu 11(52)

Live cricket scores Punjab 39/0 | Overs 16.1 | Batting: Manan Vohra 28(46), Jiwanjot Singh 11(51):
Mumbai asked Punjab to bat first. Punjab batted beautifully in their last game; let’s see how they do this time around. Both Punjab openers at this moment are looking good and taking their time to settle down.

Toss: Mumbai, who chose to Field

Playing XI:-

Mumbai: Dhawal Kulkarni, AP Tare (C) (W), Shardul , Surya Kumar Yadav, Abhishek Nayar, Akhil Herwadkar, Shreyas Iyer, SD Lad, Harmeet Singh, Shrideep Mangela, B S Sandhu

Punjab: Jiwanjot Singh, Yuvraj Singh (C), Mandeep Singh, Manan Vohra, Gitansh Khera (W), Himanshu Chawla, Sarbjeet Ladda, Siddharth Kaul, Uday Kaul, Barinder Singh Sran, Varun Khanna

Teams:

Punjab: Yuvraj Singh (c), Jiwanjot Singh,  Mandeep Singh, Gurkeerat Singh, Manan Vohra, Gitansh Khera (wk), Maninder, Siddharth Kaul, Uday Kaul, Barinder Singh Sran, Varun Khanna.

Mumbai: Aditya Tare (C), Akhil Herwadkar, Shrideep Mangela, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Abhishek Nayar, Siddhesh Lad, Nikhil Patil (Jr), Dhawal Kulkarni, Shardul Thakur, Balwinder Singh Sandhu (Jr.), Vishal Dabholkar, Abhishek Raut, Badre Alam, Harmeet Singh.