Kolkata:
Captain Suryakumar Yadav, who has been completely flopped against England recently, has finally ended the drought of runs. Suryakumar returned to the form and scored an innings of 70 runs and made a significant partnership of 139 runs with captain Ajinkya Rahane (88 not out). With this, the current champion Mumbai tightened Haryana here on the third day of the Ranji Trophy quarter -finals. With the help of brilliant bowling of fast bowler Shardul Thakur (6 wickets for 58), Mumbai took a very important lead of 14 runs by dismissing Haryana for 301 runs in the first innings. The 42 -time champion Mumbai, who scored 315 runs in the first innings, has scored 278 runs for four wickets in 67 overs till the end of the third day’s play and thus its total lead has been 292 runs.
Rahane batted patiently as usual. He has so far hit 10 fours after facing 142 balls. Suryakumar, who has been struggling to score runs for some time, hit eight fours and two sixes in his 86 -ball innings. Both of them played a century partnership at a time when Mumbai’s three wickets were out for 100 runs. Mumbai lost the wickets of openers Akash Anand (10), Ayush Mhatre (31) and Siddhesh Lad (43) quickly. At the end of the third day’s play, all -rounder Shivam Dubey was playing 30 runs with Rahane.
Shardul Thakur again showed power
Earlier, Haryana took their first innings ahead by 263 runs for five wickets and lost the remaining five wickets within just 38 runs. Apart from 6 wickets of Shardul for Mumbai, Shams Mulani and Tanush Kotian took two wickets each. Thakur took 6 wickets for 58 runs in 18.5 overs.
Ind vs NZ T20I: Suryakumar Yadav was able to score the same number of runs in five matches
Everyone’s eyes were on Suryakumar, however, could score only 28 runs in a series of five T20 Internationals against England. He made his intentions with three fours on Sumit Kumar and then did not take long to complete the half -century. Suryakumar scored a half -century after 14 innings in all kinds of cricket in this way. Earlier, his highest score in the last 10 innings was 20 runs. He hook Anuj Thakral’s ball and catching a catch on the midon.