Mumbai 45 for two (Musheer 24*, Sai Kishore 1-3) path Tamil Nadu 146 (Vijay 44, Washington 43, Deshpande 3-24, Kotian 2-10) by 101 runs
Avasthi had mixed with Shardul Thakur to set the tone for Mumbai’s opening-day dominance. After going vast of the crease and beating N Jagadeesan’s inside edge, Avasthi hit the within edge and had the opening batter popping a catch to quick leg for 4. Thakur had struck within the very first over when he pinned B Sai Sudharsan lbw with an inswinger for a duck. Sudharsan, who was returning to motion after recovering from a again niggle, additionally burnt a evaluate.
Washington Sundar, who was launched from India’s Take a look at squad, and Vijay Shankar cast a 48-run partnership for the sixth wicket to briefly resist Mumbai’s red-hot assault. Vijay bought going with a flicked 4 off Avasthi and a punchy straight drive off Deshpande. However Thakur stopped him on 44 after lunch. Thakur had angled one in from over the wicket and bought it to seam away simply sufficient to kiss the skin edge.
Washington’s innings might have been minimize quick on 11 had Shreyas Iyer latched onto a tricky likelihood within the slips off Thakur. Washington had one other nervy second on 19 when he was given out lbw off left-arm fingerspinner Shams Mulani. However a evaluate saved him, with ball-tracking indicating that the ball would have bounced over the stumps on the red-soil floor.
Kuldeep Sen, TN’s visitor pacer who had sat out of the final three video games, then marked his return with the dismissal of Shaw in his first over. Sai Kishore had Lalwani, Mumbai’s highest run-getter this season, lbw however the hosts trimmed the deficit to 101 by stumps. With each Shreyas Iyer and captain Ajinkya Rahane within the shed, Mumbai will look to bat TN out of the semi-final on Sunday.
