Ranji Trophy: Ajinkya Rahane earnings as Mumbai eye undisguised win vs Odisha

Forty one-time Ranji Trophy champions and final year’s runners-up Mumbai have a clever possibility to register their initial undisguised win of a deteriorate opposite a squalid Odisha in a Group ‘C’ confront during Bhubaneswar starting today. Though Mumbai will be blank out on a services of in-form batsman Shreyas Iyer who is on inhabitant avocation for a T20I array opposite New Zealand, a visitors will be increased by a lapse of Test batsman Ajinkya Rahane and pacer Shardul Thakur.

Ajinkya Rahane
Ajinkya Rahane

Dangerous trio
Even fit-again pacer Tushar Deshpande has been enclosed in a side and is expected to form a good bowling multiple with Thakur and gifted pacer Dhawal Kulkarni. However, Mumbai’s spin dialect once again seems rarely contingent on a left-arm spinner Vijay Gohil. Mumbai is placed fourth in a organisation with 4 points from dual games only above Odisha, who are fifth with dual points in as many games.

Mumbai’s unlawful past
When a final time these dual teams clashed during Wankhede Stadium in Dec 2013, Mumbai had to be confident with 3 points notwithstanding creation Odisha follow on after hosts skipper Wasim Jaffer (143) and Hiken Shah (170) purebred centuries. In response to Mumbai’s 501 for 9 declared, Odisha managed to measure 256 in a initial innings and accumulate 356 for 5 in their second letter in a draw. Natraj Behera scored a hundred in any innings for Odisha.

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