Mumbai v Gujarat - Ranji Trophy - Group A – Live Score and Update
Gujarat 244 v Mumbai 24/1 (8.3 ov) - Mumbai trail by 220 runs with 9 wickets remaining in the 1st innings
The Mumbai bowlers had a spectacular opening day of their Group A http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kumar-Shri-Ranjitsinhji-c71870 Trophy encounter against Gujarat, where they bowled-out their opposition on 244, providing their own batsmen an opportunity to end the day with 24 runs on the board at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Patel-c90556 with the batsman on eight runs.
The second-wicket partnership between SB Gohel and BH Merai was hard to crack as the batting pair took the score to 89, before Kulkarni had Gohel caught behind with 30 runs to his name.
It was after 107 runs when Mumbai tasted their third success of the day on the dismissal of Merai, who was run out after jabbing a well-earned knock of 41 runs.
With skipper PA Patel leading the charge alongside MC Juneja, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379 after scoring six off 34 deliveries.
However, the demise of this wicket did not hamper the scoring rate as the skipper, forging another important partnership alongside http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Christopher-James-Jordan-c50838 Gandhi, took the score to 186 before losing his batting partner for nine runs.
While the bowlers were unable to rattle http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657, they were successful from the other end as they dismissed another batsman with 205 runs on the board. This time it was RH Bhatt, who had to find his way back to the pavilion after playing a short knock of eight runs.
Mumbai’s plan was now to leave the opposition skipper and concentrate on getting wickets from the other end, and this plan worked like a charm for them, as with 232 on the board they struck for the seventh time when Chavan dismissed RV Dhurv for 12.
RB Kalaria, tried his best not to disappoint his skipper as he faced 18 deliveries before getting removed with only two runs under his belt.
Finally, Patel became the ninth wicket of the day when he was caught by Patil off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 after playing a captain’s knock of 101 runs.
With the Gujarat innings later coming to its end, it was time for Mumbai batsmen to deliver the goods.
The side, however, lost one wicket before ending the day with W Jaffer unbeaten on six runs.
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