Vidarbha vs Mumbai Live Rating, Ranji Trophy semi-final Day 2 (Vidarbha Cricket Team vs Mumbai Cricket Team): Hello and welcome to the live blog of Day 2’s play of the continuing Ranji Trophy 2024-25 semifinal match between Vidarbha and defending champions Mumbai. The match is happening on the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur and is streaming survive the Jio Hotstar app and website.
Danish Malewar’s gritty 79 and opener Dhruv Shorey’s attractive 74 made up for a gritty batting show by hosts Vidarbha as they reached 308 for five against defending champions Mumbai on the primary day.
Karun Nair, who’s back in contention for a Test team berth, scored a chiselled 45 before he seemed distinctly unhappy with a caught behind decision of Shivam Dube’s bowling although he had opted for DRS.
While the two-time champions didn’t have an enormous partnership, they’d enough middling stands to see them cross 300-run mark after Mumbai had sent down 88 overs within the day.
Mumbai bowlers were also guilty of bowling as many as 13 no balls throughout the course of the opening day.
Left-arm spinner Shams Mulani (2/44 in 18 overs) was easily one of the best bowler on the day as he got appreciable bounce and a few amount of purchase from the Jamtha track.
Dube (2/35 in 9 overs) also had a pair wickets but one among them was more so due to a splendid one-handed diving catch by Suryakumar Yadav within the slip cordon.
That Mumbai did not make more inroads was since the two recent ball bowlers Shardul Thakur (0/57 in 14 overs) and Mohit Avasthi (0/61 in 14 overs) were way off the mark with each recent ball and second recent ball on the fag end of the day.
Playing XIs
Vidarbha: Atharva Taide, Dhruv Shorey, Danish Malewar, Karun Nair, Yash Rathod, Akshay Wadkar (C & WK), Harsh Dubey, Nachiket Bhute, Darshan Nalkande, Yash Thakur, Parth Rekhade
Mumbai: Ayush Mhatre, Akash Anand (WK), Siddhesh Lad, Ajinkya Rahane (C), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Shams Mulani, Shardul Thakur, Tanush Kotian, Mohit Avasthi, Royston Dias
