Mumbai became champion for the 42nd time in Ranji Trophy, these three players were the heroes of victory

Mumbai won Ranji Trophy 2024 : The champion team of Ranji Trophy has been decided and once again Mumbai has captured the trophy. This time Maharashtra's Vidarbha team was against Mumbai in the final. With this, Mumbai has become champion for the 42nd time in Ranji Trophy. Three players played important roles in Mumbai's victory.

These three players gave match winning performances

Mumbai team has won the title of Ranji Trophy 2023-24 by defeating Vidarbha by 169 runs in the final match. Mumbai team performed brilliantly under the captaincy of Ajinkya Rahane. For that, Musheer Khan, Shreyas Iyer and Shardul Thakur gave match-winning performances. Musheer scored a century in the second innings. Iyer played an inning of 95 runs. Mumbai scored 224 runs in the first innings and 418 runs in the second innings. Vidarbha scored 105 runs in the first innings and 368 runs in the second innings.

Mumbai was all out for 224 runs in the first innings.

Mumbai had a bad start. After losing the toss and deciding to bat first, Mumbai team was out for 224 runs in the first innings. Meanwhile, Prithvi Shaw played an inning of 46 runs. While Bhupen Lalwani returned to the pavilion after scoring 37 runs. After this, no batsman could stay on the field for long. But Shardul Thakur saved the honor of Mumbai. He scored 75 runs on 69 balls. Shardul also hit 8 fours and 3 sixes. Yash Thakur and Harsh Dubey took 3 wickets each for Vidarbha during Mumbai's first innings. Umesh Yadav took 2 wickets.

Vidarbha's first innings ended on the score of 105 runs.

Vidarbha's first innings was also not good. She was all out for just 105 runs. Yash Rathod scored the highest 27 runs for Vidarbha. Karun Nair was out for zero while Atharva Tayed scored 23 runs. Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian and Dhawal Kulkarni took 3 wickets each for Mumbai.

Excellent batting by Musheer-Iyer

Mumbai team made a brilliant comeback in the second innings. Mumbai's second innings ended on the score of 418 runs. Meanwhile Musheer Khan scored a century. He scored 136 runs on 326 balls. During this he also hit 10 fours. Shreyas Iyer scored 95 runs in 111 balls. Shams Mulani remained unbeaten after scoring 50 runs. Captain Ajinkya Rahane played an inning of 73 runs. Harsh Dubey took 5 wickets from Vidarbha side. While Yash Thakur took 3 wickets.

Captain's century went in vain

While chasing the target given by Mumbai, Vidarbha team was limited to the score of 368 runs. Captain Akshay Wadkar scored a century for Vidarbha. He scored 102 runs on 199 balls. Harsh Dubey played an inning of 65 runs. Tanush took 4 wickets for Mumbai during the second innings of Vidarbha. Tushar Deshpande got 2 wickets. Musheer Khan also took 2 wickets. In this way Vidarbha had to face defeat by 169 runs.