Mumbai in strong position against Baroda

Mumbai were in a strong position at stumps on the second day of their West Zone Ranji Trophy league match against Baroda at the MIG ground, Bandra, Mumbai on Sunday. After they were all out for 410 off 98.1 overs, they dismissed Baroda shortly after tea for 202 off 63.5 overs. Mumbai did not enforce the follow on and in their second innings, were 32 for one off 13 overs at close.

Mumbai resumed at 391 for eight. Ajit Agarkar was the ninth batsman to be dismissed after scoring 75 off 132 balls with eleven hits to the fence. Paras Mhambrey missed out on his half century by eight runs when he edged Rakesh Patel to Satyajit Parab for 42. He batted for 121 minutes, played 91 balls and hit six of them to the fence.

Mumbai's four pronged pace attack never let the Baroda bandwagon ride for long. Mhambery gave the first breakthrough dismissing Satyajit Parab for 14. Himanshu Jadhav soon followed edging an outswinger from Paras to keeper Dighe without troubling the scorers. Connor Williams hung around for 156 minutes scoring 39 off 112 balls with five hits to the fence and one over it. He added 55 runs off 21.2 overs with Jacob Martin, who scored 30 off 74 balls with five hits to the fence.

By tea, Baroda were down in the dumps at 132 for seven off 47 overs. Rakesh Patel stuck around playing a gritty innings of 36 off 69 balls. He hit seven boundaries. Robin Morris bagged four for 27 and was well supported by Agarkar (two for 44) and Mhambrey (two for 59).