Divij Mehra wreaked havoc on Mumbai with his bowling, Delhi tightened the match

New Delhi: Young fast bowler Divij Mehra took a five-wicket haul as Delhi sealed their Ranji Trophy Group B match against Mumbai. Divij, playing only his second first-class match, took five wickets for 29 runs as Mumbai struggled to 168 for nine at the end of the third day’s play. Mumbai currently have a lead of only 92 runs, which has increased the chances of the Delhi team registering their first win of the season after a poor start to the season.

Mumbai had scored 293 runs in their first innings, in response to which Delhi took a lead of 76 runs in the first innings by scoring 369 runs, playing ahead of 316 runs in their first innings in the morning. Pranshu Vijayaran played a fiery inning of 37 runs for Delhi in the morning. After this, Divij dismissed Prithvi Shaw (16), Musheer Khan (5), Armaan Jaffer (10) and first innings century-scorer Sarfaraz Khan (0) to dismantle Mumbai’s top-order.

Mumbai’s score was 34 for four in the 10th over. Captain Ajinkya Rahane scored 51 runs but fast bowler Vijayaran gave a blow to Mumbai by dismissing him. Tanush Kotian was playing on 48 at stumps while Royston Dias is yet to open his account. Chasing a target of 343 against Andhra in Rajkot, Saurashtra were 10 for one in their second innings at the end of the third day’s play.

Andhra had scored 415 in their first innings and bowled out Saurashtra for 237. Andhra declared their second innings at 164 for seven wickets. In another Group B match being played in Chennai, Tamil Nadu forced Assam to follow on. In response to Tamil Nadu’s 540 runs, Assam’s team was dismissed for 266 runs. Assam followed up by scoring 66 runs without loss in their second innings. On the other hand, Maharashtra defeated Hyderabad by nine wickets in Pune.

In reply to Maharashtra’s 385, Hyderabad were bowled out for 192 and had to follow on. Hyderabad was able to score 219 runs in the second innings as well. In this way, Maharashtra got the target of 27 runs which they achieved by losing one wicket.

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