da dobrowin: Mumbai earned five first innings points against Saurashtra in the Vijay MerchantTrophy at the Rajkot Municipal Corporation Cricket Ground on Monday
da realsbet: Waleed Hussain18-Dec-2000Mumbai earned five first innings points against Saurashtra in the Vijay MerchantTrophy at the Rajkot Municipal Corporation Cricket Ground on Monday. The hostscollected three from the draw.Mumbai, deciding to bat first had a disastrous start to their innings losingskipper Swapnoj Thakur to the first legitimate ball of the innings. RohanSaldana (34) and Sahil Kukreja added 77 runs off 23 overs for the second wicket.The top order continued its bad form with three of the batsman making starts butfailing to capitalise on the innings. The star of the innings was allrounderParag Madkaikar who scored 151 off 308 balls, hitting 19 bounadries in hismammoth innings. He was well supported by stumper Pradosh Mayekar (63) off 94balls. The duo added 106 off 32 overs for the sixth wicket. Mumbai were bowledout for 411 off 136.3 overs.In reply, Saurashtra were bowled out for 296 in 111.2 overs. Cheteshwar Pujarascored a patient 52 off 257 balls, with eight hits to the fence. Utpal Rana wasthe other half centurion in the innings with 50 off 60 balls, nine hits to theropes. Nikhil Rathod and Rahul Parmar chipped in with 46 and 40 respectively.Arif Sunsara bagged four for 74. Mumbai batted in the second innings for 85minutes and at close of play were 24 for no loss in 20 overs.






