Ranji Trophy | Mulani scalps memorable 5 in outing in opposition to Odisha

Wealthy haul: Mulani earned his second fifer in as many days.
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 He needed to await 21 innings for his fifteenth five-wicket haul in First Class cricket. However Shams Mulani earned his second fifer in as many days to make it a memorable match for himself and Mumbai to assist the defending champion pocket a bonus level in opposition to Odisha in a Ranji Trophy Elite Group- A sport.

Driving on Mulani’s (5 for 71) star act, Mumbai picked the remaining 5 Odisha wickets in 119 minutes on Saturday morning on the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy floor.

The bonus level – due to its margin of an innings and 103 runs – will come in useful for Mumbai after a topsy-turvy begin to the season.

The writing was clear on the wall in the beginning of play on the fourth day however Odisha’s final 5 wickets added 88 runs earlier than handing Mumbai the victory.

Greater than half of these got here from Kartik Biswal’s (45 n.o., 77b, 5×4) blade.

Biswal took guard in the beginning of the day’s play and performed each the spinners – Mulani and Himanshu Singh – on advantage. Whereas his footwork was spectacular in opposition to spin, he drove Royston Dias in the course of the left-arm pacer’s three-over spell.

Mulani, after changing Shardul Thakur within the fifth over of the day, struck off his first ball, getting Aashirwad Swain (51, 115b, 3×4) – who had raised his bat an over earlier for a well-made fifty – lbw.

Affected person

With the set batter dismissed early on, Mumbai’s spin duo – bowling 25.5 off the 30.5 overs within the morning – needed to be affected person to attract errors from the batters. Mulani’s double strike in 4 balls within the nineteenth over of the morning gave him his tenth scalp of the match within the type of Harshit Rathod (caught behind) and second fifer of the sport (Suryakant Pradhan edging it to Shreyas Iyer at gully).

Frustration

With Biswal taking part in freely and last-man Sunil Roul hanging on, the duo pissed off the host for 49 minutes earlier than Singh sneaked by way of Roul’s defence.

The scores:

Mumbai – 1st innings: 602/4 decl.

Odisha – 1st innings: 285.

Odisha – 2nd innings: Anurag Sarangi c & b Himanshu 6, Swastik Samal c (sub) b Dias 1, Aashirwad Swain lbw b Swain 51, Sandeep Pattanaik st (sub) b Mulani 39, Govinda Poddar c Rahane b Himanshu 1, Biplab Samantray c Rahane b Himanshu 26, Kartik Biswal (not out) 45, Debabrata Pradhan lbw b Mulani 18, Harshit Rathod c (sub) b Mulani 2, Suryakant Pradhan c Shreyas b Mulani 4, Sunil Kumar Roul b Himanshu 14; Extras (b-3, lb-3, nb-1): 7; Whole (in 72.5 overs): 214.

Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-19, 3-75, 4-78, 5-126, 6-136, 7-160, 8-170, 9-174.

Mumbai bowling: Dias 10-3-28-1, Himanshu 29.5-2-77-4, Shedge 4-0-22-0, Mulani 23-3-71-5, Thakur 6-1-10-0.

Factors: Mumbai 7; Odisha 0.

Participant-of-the-Match: Shams Mulani.