Vijay Hazare Trophy | Mumbai saunters to an easy victory over Saurashtra
Mumbai’s Parsad Pawar plays a shot, during the Vijay Hazare Trophy match against Saurashtra, at the Alur KSCA cricket stadium, in Bengaluru on December 1, 2023.
| Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR
Defending champion Saurashtra is all but out of the 2023-24 Vijay Hazare Trophy after a five-wicket loss to Mumbai at the Alur Cricket Stadium here on Friday. Yet another below-par effort with the willow meant that Jaydev Unadkat’s men could only muster 144 runs after being asked to bat. In reply, Mumbai wobbled a bit, reduced as it was to 76 for five. But a 74-run unbroken sixth-wicket stand between Prasad Pawar (43 n.o., 63b, 4x4, 1x6) and Shardul Thakur (39 n.o., 44b, 2x4, 2x6) carried the side to its fifth straight win and handed Saurashtra its third defeat in five matches.
Mumbai’s Shardul ...