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Ranji Trophy: Can Mumbai do what they did to Hyderabad 40 years ago?
- Updated: December 26, 2016
Mumbai Skipper Aditya Tare
Success in Ranji Trophy hit out games requires a special covering of steel. And that’s what Aditya Tare’s Mumbai group will have to arrangement on a penultimate day of their quarter-final opposite Hyderabad in Raipur today.
Of course, they showed a good magnitude of suggestion yesterday too when they discharged their opponents for 280 to benefit a 14-run initial innings lead. Hyderabad were 167 for 3 overnight and looked in good position to transcend Mumbai’s 294.
Bowlers mutilate havoc
On Saturday, gait bowling all-rounder Abhishek Nayar sent behind Hyderabad’s 3 tip sequence batsmen. Yesterday, he discharged overnight batsman Bavanaka Sandeep (17) to finish adult with 4-60 in 29 overs. Left-arm spinner Vijay Gohil (3-59) and pacer Shardul Thakur (2-45) did a rest of a repairs to forestall Hyderabad from using divided with a initial innings lead. With Mumbai losing 3 wickets for 102, a initial innings lead doesn’t count for most now. The fortifying champions are cornered, though they can be tigerish in Raipur currently if they do probity to a normal khadoos attitude.
It won’t be easy. And Tare will have to come adult with an moving batting show, ditto Nayar and immature gun Siddhesh Lad (who scored 59 and 110 in a initial innings respectively). With Kevin D’Almeida, Shreyas Iyer and Suryakumar Yadav behind in a hut, Mumbai are not on a smoothest of streets.
Mumbai cricket historians will indicate to a 1975-76 quarter-final fought out by a same opponents during a Wankhede Stadium in Jan 1976. Mumbai were discharged for 222, customarily due to off-spinner V Ramnarayan, who claimed 7 for 68. Hyderabad led by ML Jaisimha, totaled 281.
Splendid feat in 1976
Skipper Ashok Mankad scored a shining dominant 136 in a second innings and announced during 275 for four, giving Hyderabad a aim of 217. Leg-spinner Rakesh Tandon claimed 6-62 while Padmakar Shivalkar’s 4 wickets enclosed earlier Test starts Abbas Ali Baig and S Abid Ali. Tandon discharged MAK Pataudi for a steep and Hyderabad were bowled out for 146. Mumbai won by 70 runs and finished adult champions when they kick Bihar in Jamshedpur a following month.
Brief scores
Mumbai 294 102-3 (Praful Waghela 27* Aditya Tare 39*; Mohamme Siraj 2-6) vs Hyderabad 1st Innings 280 (Tanmay Agarwal 82, S Badrinath 56; Abhishek Nayar 4-26, Vijay Gohil 3-59, Shardul Thakur 2-45)