Published: Dec 11, 2015, 08:55 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 12:29 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live cricket blog of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015-16 tournament, between Mumbai and Tamil Nadu at Hyderabad. Both Mumbai and Tamil Nadu got off to a win in their opening campaigns. While Mumbai beat Punjab by five wickets, Tamil Nadu defeated Assam by six wickets with over eight overs ti spare. Jay Bista scored an excellent 92 on his List A debut to help Mumbai chase down Punjab’s score of 92. Mumbai kept losing wickets at regular intervals, but Abhishek Nayyar eventually took Mumbai to a win. For Tamil Nadu, it was who slammed a ton opening the innings.
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Mumbai 286 in overs 45.2 | Target 313| BATTING: Dhawal Kulkarni 4(14): Tamil Nadu win. Mumbai gave a commendable fight as opener Akhil Herwadkar scored a 86-ball 107 that almost changed the course of the game. But then they went on losing wickets and eventually lost it to Tamil Nadu.
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Mumbai 149/2 in overs 23 | Target 313| BATTING: Shreyas Iyer 11(8), Surya Kumar Yadav 1(1): The target is really huge but Mumbai is playing brilliantly. Akhil Herwadkar made a stupendous 86-ball 107 and helped his team with a boost of runs. Shreyas Iyer and Surya Kumar Yadav have the potential to take their team to the desired victory.
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Tamil Nadu 312/7 in overs 50 ; BATTING: Baba Aparajith 60(52), M Ashwin 0(2): Tamil Nadu put up a huge score for Mumbai to chase. Mumbai will have to keep their calm and slowly but steadily approach towards their target. The Aparajith brothers were the most impactful as they added they maximum runs.
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Tamil Nadu 271/2 in overs 45 ; BATTING: Baba Aparajith 43(71), Ravichandran Ashwin 0(2): Baba Indrajith and Ravichandran Ashwin are at the crease. Murli Vijay played a useful knock of 55 which has to be praised.
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: Tamil Nadu 107/2 in overs 23 ; BATTING: Baba Aparajith 43(71), Murali Vijay 30(36): Two wickets are down but Tamil Nadu have reached their 100 which is a good sign. Vijay is an experienced player and his team will depend upon him a lot.
Vijay Shankar struck 42 in coming in the middle-order to help Tamil Nadu chase Assam’s score of 210 downeasily. Ravichandran Ashwin was back to lead the Tamil Nadu side, after picking up 31 wickets in the Test series against South Africa. Murali Vijay was back for them as well. For Mumbai, Their star players Ajinkya Rahane and Rohot Sharma are most likely to miss this game as well, but will play a part in the future games, perhaps.
Sagar Trivedi, another Mumbai lad, who made his debut was also impressive as he finished with figures of 3 for 21, that helped Mumbai pull the game back to a certain extent. Both teams will look to go all guns blazing to win this match. It will be their first loss of the season, something that both teams would like to avoid in the early stages of the competition. Mumbai were in blazing form even in the Ranji Trophy and have successfully transformed it into the limited-overs as well.
Squads:
Mumbai: Aditya Tare (c,wk), Jay Bista, Akhil Herwadkar, Iqbal Abdulla, Shreyas Iyer, Dhawal Kulkarni, Siddhesh Lad, Abhishek Nayar, Rohan Raje, Abhishek Raut, Sufiyan Shaikh, Shashank Singh, Shardul Thakur, Sagar Trivedi, Suryakumar Yadav.
Tamil Nadu: Ravichandran Ashwin (c), Srikkanth Anirudha, Antony Dhas, Baba Aparajith, Murugan Ashwin, Aswin Crist, Baba Indrajith, Dinesh Karthik (wk), J Kousik, M Mohammed, Abhinav Mukund, Malolan Rangarajan, Rajagopal Sathish, Rahil Shah, Vijay Shankar, Murali Vijay.
