The writing was on the wall on the penultimate day. Then, in a single day heavy rain made the final day’s proceedings of the semifinal between Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh at Just Cricket Academy a mere formality, if not a farce.
Eventually, solely 16 overs had been bowled, with UP part-timers rolling their arm over. The second Shams Mulani joined Sarfaraz Khan within the half-century membership, Mumbai declared its second essay at 533 for 4. With lower than half an hour remaining for tea, the break was referred to as and the groups shook fingers.
Despite the disappointing outing over the past 5 days, Uttar Pradesh had loads to cherish from a season the place it began as underdog. Mumbai, then again, will go into Wednesday’s remaining on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium with actually no chink in its armour.
With the part-timers bowling for many of the day, Sarfaraz — within the type of his life — was served dollies aplenty. And the run-machine crossed the 800-run mark for the season with two scorching hits over mid-wicket.
Mulani, who was cautious towards Prince Yadav initially, lower and pulled the medium-pacer for fours off successive balls to hasten his fifty that ended proceedings.
The morning session was washed out owing to a number of soggy patches within the outfield. Only after the scheduled lunch did the match officers, in session with the captains, resolve to start out at 1.15 p.m.
Had the sport began on time, Mumbai — simply as on the fourth morning of the quarterfinal towards Uttarakhand final week — could have declared at its in a single day 449 for 4, with a lead of 662 runs.
Yashasvi Jaiswal was adjudged Player-of-the-Match for his twin tons of. Mumbai will probably be wanting ahead to repeating their exploits on Wednesday.
The scores:
Mumbai — 1st innings: 393.
Uttar Pradesh — 1st innings: 180.
Mumbai — 2nd innings: Prithvi Shaw c Mavi b Saurabh 64, Yashasvi Jaiswal c sub b Prince 181, Armaan Jaffer c sub b Mavi 127, Suved Parkar c & b Prince 22, Sarfaraz Khan (not out) 59, Shams Mulani (not out) 51; Extras (b-12, lb-4, nb-4, w-9): 29; Total (for 4 wkts. decl. in 156 overs): 533.
Fall of wickets: 1-66, 2-352, 3-404, 4-420.
Uttar Pradesh bowling: Dayal 10-1-43-0, Rajpoot 19-4-58-0, Mavi 12-3-36-1, Prince 27-3-92-2, Saurabh 35-6-1-113-1, Karan 30-7-84-0, Rinku 12-0-49-0, Samarth 2-0-9-0, Kaushik 9-1-33-0.
Match drawn; Mumbai by means of to the ultimate on the premise of first innings lead. Player-of-the-Match: Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Source: www.thehindu.com
