Suryakumar Yadav
A confident Mumbai will look to record a headpiece- trick of outright triumphs when they take on old rivals Saurashtra in their coming Ranji jewel match, which will begin on Tuesday at the MCA’s Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy in BKC. After taking the lead in Elite Group B by crushing both of the southern armies Andhra and also Hyderabad, Mumbai is presently in first place in the group.
When these two armies met for the first time in the Ranji nature nearly ten months ago at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Saurashtra pulled off an implausible draw, with just one gate remaining, as their last brace of commander Jaydev Unadkat( 32 not out) and Chetan Sakaria( 10 not out) kept the Mumbai bowlers at bay for 104 balls in the final session of the match. The match ended in a draw. Cheteshwar Pujara’s atypical 83- ball 91 was a significant factor in Saurashtra recovering control of the game on the last day.
In malice of this, the scales feel to have leaned in favour of Mumbai going into this hassle, as they have accumulated 13 points after two matches. Not only are they riding the swell of confidence that may come from winning back- to- back three- day matches, but they also have the services of an in- form Suryakumar Yadav, who scored a strokeful 80- ball 90 in the most recent hassle. This gives them a double advantage. Although goods are looking up, there is still a significant amount of time left in the season. After some time, it turns into a really busy season. Other than that, during the former season, we contended in the tests, but it was just three league games,” the Mumbai coach Amol Muzumdar remarked at the BKC on Monday.
First- innings leads against Assam and Maharashtra were achieved by Saurashtra
which reacted in scores of 480 or advanced on both occasions; still, the team will be without the services of their big artillery Pujara and Unadkat, who have only recently returned from India duty in Bangladesh, as well as star each- rounder Ravindra Jadeja( still recovering from knee injury).
The fact that the pitch also’s again anticipated to be a turning track is another factor that provides Mumbai an advantage over their opponents. In addition to this, they have two baits who are presently doing well in the shape of left- arm incitement Shams Mulani( 14 structures) and off- incitement Tanush Kotian( 13 structures). In the most recent match played at this stadium, the brace was responsible for 18 of Hyderabad’s 20 structures taken.