Mumbai put Railways under pressure by taking 2 wickets in the final session on the second day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group D match at the Brabourne Stadium on Tuesday. Railways had scored 80 runs without any loss but at stumps their score was 116/2. Railways team is still lagging behind Mumbai by 280 runs. His batsmen struggled on a slow pitch. Tanush Kotian and Shams Mulani gave success to Mumbai by taking important wickets.
Railways is playing its home matches at the Brabourne Stadium in this Ranji season. The irregular bounce on the pitch also affected Railways' opening batsman Vivek Singh. He retired hurt after injuring his back while trying to avoid a short ball. Till that time he had scored 38 runs with the help of 8 fours. Due to not getting much success with the new ball, Mumbai had to adopt different bowling strategies but Railways did not lose any wicket for 25 overs.
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Kotian gave Mumbai its first success
Finally, in the 26th over, Kotian gave Mumbai its first success by getting Saheb Singh (33) caught behind the wicket. Shortly after this, Mulani ended Ishan Goyal's innings. By the end of the day's play, captain Bhargav Merai was unbeaten on seven runs and Mohammad Saif was unbeaten on 29 runs. Earlier in the morning, Mumbai team, playing ahead of 247 runs for 6 wickets, added 149 runs in its first innings.
In this, left-handed batsman Shams Mulani, who came at number eight, had an important contribution. Taking advantage of the favorable batting conditions, Mulani scored 71 runs with the help of 7 fours. He made a partnership of 82 runs for the seventh wicket with wicketkeeper batsman Akash Anand. Akash scored 52 runs. For Railways, Himanshu Sangwan took four wickets for 88 runs. Along with this, he also completed his 100 wickets in first class cricket.
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Pradosh of Tamil Nadu scored a double century
In another match of Group-D, with the help of double century of Pradosh Ranjan Paul (208 runs) and century of Ajit Ram (115 not out), Tamil Nadu declared the first innings against Chandigarh by scoring 517 runs for 7 wickets. Pradosh scored 208 runs in 335 balls with the help of 14 fours, while Ajit Ram played an unbeaten inning of 115 runs in 219 balls with the help of 10 fours. In reply, Chandigarh scored 49 runs after losing 3 wickets till stumps, due to which it is behind by 522 runs in the first innings.
In another match in Dharamshala, Rajasthan made a brilliant comeback in the second innings against Himachal Pradesh after being bundled out for just 78 runs in the first innings and scored 297 runs for 4 wickets at stumps. In this way Rajasthan's total lead has become 222 runs. At the end of the second day's play in Dehradun, Uttarakhand scored 296 runs for 7 wickets and took a lead of 143 runs over Haryana. Haryana had scored 153 runs in the first innings.