Published: Dec 15, 2015, 08:30 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 12:10 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of Mumbai and Services, Group A match of the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015-16 at Hyderabad. Services having won two games from the tow matches they have played so far in the tournament are the table toppers, while Mumbai with two victories from three matches stand just below Services on the second spot. Mumbai played Assam in their previous fixture at Secunderabad. Assam were thrashed by their opponents by 96 runs, with Dhawal Kulkarni performing exceptionally well with 4 wickets that helped Mumbai bowl out Assam for 102 runs in 35 overs in the second innings. Vijay Hazare 2015-16: Full coverage here
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Mumbai 156/4 | Overs 25.2 | Target 152|BATTING: Ajinkya Rahane 10 (22), Aditya Tare 22 (23): Mumbai have won the match with ease and with close to 25 overs to spare. Ajinkya Rahane and skipper Aditya Tare finish things off right at the end to ensure Mumbai continue their momentum. OUT! Surya Kumar Yadav c Pathania b Bloch, Akhil Herwadkar c Pathania b Bloch 46 (48)
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Mumbai 108/2 | Overs 16 | Target 152|BATTING: Akhil Herwadkar 36(33), Surya Kumar Yadav 3 (8): Shreyas Iyer played one shot too many and finds himself back in the hut after scoring a 28-ball 35. Surya Kumar Yadav is the new batsman and has herwadkar batting beautifully at the other end. OUT! Shreyas Iyer st Verma b Kanojia 35 (28)
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Mumbai 94/1 | Overs 12 | Target 152|BATTING: Akhil Herwadkar 36(33), Shreyas Iyer 31(22): After the first dismissal, Services have failed to make any more breakthroughs and Mumbai are well on way to another superb victory with Iyer once again on fire. His innings so far includes six boundaries. From here, Mumbai need another 58 runs to win.
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Mumbai 22/0| Overs 3| Target 152| BATTING: Akhil herwadkar 3 (5), Shashank Singh 18 (13): Mumbai are off to a flying start as the the opening combo of Shashank and herwadkar have hot four boundaries out of a score of 18 in just three overs. Services will have to bowl Mumbai out. They cannot restrict them to a score of under 151 considering their strong batting line-iup.
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Services 151| Overs 42.1 | BATTING: N Yadav (3): Services have been bowled out for 151 with Shradul Thakur starring with four wickets to his name. Shashank Singh and Iqbal Abdullah pick up two wickets apiece. Nakul Verma top-scored for Services with 50.
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Services 139/7 | Overs 37 | BATTING: Sufiyan Alam 6 (16), Diwesh Pathania 0 (2): Services have lost a three quick wickets, which has put Mumbai right on top. They will look to take the remaining wickets as early as possible. OUT! Soumya Swain c Shashank Singh b Abdullah, Suraj Yadav LBW Dhawal 0 (1), Azaruddin Bloch c Tare b Dhawal 1 (2)
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Services 124/4 | Overs 33 | BATTING: Soumya Swain 20 (28), Sufiyan Alam 1 (5): Nakul Verma has been dismissed for a well made half-century and Sufiyan Alam is the new batsman. This is not good for Services, who have been losing wickets at regular intervals. Their run rate has to be better as well. OUT! Nakul Verma c Tare b Shradul 50 (93)
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Services 89/3 | Overs 24 | BATTING: Nakul Verma 28(55), Soumya Swain 1 (4): Rajat Paliwal has been dismissed dismissed nine shot of his half-century and Services have lost their third wicket. Mumbai will be happy to have broken this partnership as it was beginning to threaten them. Soumya Swain is the new batsman for Services. OUT! Rajat Paliwal c Yadav b Shashank Singh 41 (45)
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Services 78/2 | Overs 21 | BATTING: Nakul Verma 28(55), Rajat Paliwal 41(43): Rajat Paliwal has done extremely well so far and has built an excellent stand along with Nakul Verma. They have put on an excellent partnership after losing two early wickets. They will look to keep the bowlers at bay for a few more overs.
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Services 13/2 | Overs 8 | BATTING: Nakul Verma 6(19), Rajat Paliwal 0(2): Shardul struck for Mumbai in the 6th over, removing Services opening batsman Soumik Chatterjee. The latter scored 6 from 17 balls before giving an easy catch to Mumbai skipper Aditya Tare on very first delivery of the 6th over. That wicket was followed by the dismissal of the one0down batsman Mumtaz Qadir. The second wicket fell in a span of nearly two overs. It was Shardul’s second scalp for the match. Qadir got out leaving Services at 13 for 2. OUT! Soumik Chatterjee c Aditya Tare b Shardul 6(17) OUT! Mumtaz Qadir c Aditya Tare b Shardul 0(10)
TOSS UPDATE: Mumbai won the toss, elected to field.
The other fixtures of Mumbai were against Tamil Nadu and Punjab. While Mumbai beat the latter, they faced a 26-run defeat against Tamil Nadu. At present, Mumbai opener Akhil Herwadkar is the top-scorer for them with 139 runs and his three innings include a century which he had scored against Tamil Nadu. However, the ton was not enough for helping Mumbai win that match.
On the other hand, Services played their two matches against Rajasthan and Hyderabad respectively. They played their opening fixture against Rajasthan and batting first, they posted a first innings total of 230 runs. In reply to that, Rajasthan were bowled out for 167 runs in 41.3 overs. Puneet Yadav had top-scored for Rajasthan in that game with his 52 runs in 48 balls. Services’ second game was against Hyderabad which they had won by 5 wickets with 7 balls to spare.
Squad:
Mumbai: Dhawal Kulkarni, Aditya Tare (c &wk), Shardul , Surya Kumar Yadav, Iqbal Abdullah, Abhishek Nayar, Akhil Herwadkar, Shreyas Iyer, Siddesh Lad, Jay Bista, Sagar V Trivedi
Services: Rajat Paliwal, Diwesh Gurdev Pathania, Nakul Verma (wk), Shadab Nazar, Suraj Yadav, Yashpal Singh, Soumik Chatterjee (c), Rahul Kanojia, Azaruddin Bloch, S R Swain, Mumtaz Qadir
