Mumbai vs Rest of India, Irani Cup 2024 Day 5 LIVE Score & Updates: Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the fifth day’s play of the ongoing Irani Cup 2024 match between Ranji Trophy 2023-24 winners Mumbai and Rest of India team at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.
On Friday, seasoned spin duo of Shams Mulani and Tanush Kotian became catalysts of Rest of India’s sudden middle-order collapse that saw them lose six wickets for only 23 runs, putting Mumbai within sniffing distance of an Irani Cup triumph despite Abhimanyu Easwaran’s heroic 191.
In reply to Mumbai’s first innings score of 537, RoI were cruising along at 393 for 4, riding on Easwaran and Test team’s second keeper Dhruv Jurel’s (93) 165-run stand for the fifth wicket.
However, left-arm spinner Mulani (3/122 in 40 overs) broke Rest’s resistance with quick dismissals of the two set batters in a space of 10 minutes to give the match a decisive turn on the fourth day.
Off-spinner Kotian (3/101 in 27 overs) then polished off the tail as RoI were all out for 416, handing a 121-run first innings lead to Mumbai.
Prithvi Shaw (76 off 105 balls) then came out all guns blazing as the ball started turning square with Mumbai finishing the day at 153 for 6 with an overall lead of 274.
RoI off-spinner Saransh Jain (4/67 in 18 overs) and left-arm spinner Manav Suthar (2/40 in 17 overs) looked way more menacing in the second essay with a lot of deliveries keeping low along with appreciable turn on offer.
On a track which looked like a batting paradise for better part of the first three days, 12 wickets fell on Day 4 with spinners accounting for 11 of them.
Playing XIs
Mumbai: Prithvi Shaw, Ayush Mhatre, Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane (C), Sarfaraz Khan, Hardik Tamore (WK), Shardul Thakur, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Mohit Avasthi, M Juned Khan
Rest of India: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Devdutt Padikkal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sai Sudharsan, Ishan Kishan, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Manav Suthar, Saransh Jain, Yash Dayal, Prasidh Krishna, Mukesh Kumar
