Sunday , December 29 2024

Mumbai needs five wickets to win 42nd Ranji Trophy title, Vidarbha 5/248

Karun Nair (74) and captain Akshay Wadkar (56 not out) kept their Vidarbha team in the title race by scoring 248 runs for five wickets while chasing a tough target of 538 runs on the fourth day of the Ranji Trophy final. Victory. At the same time, Mumbai team will have to wait one more day to win the 42nd Ranji Trophy title. Mumbai needs five more wickets to win the final. At the time of stumps, Harsh Dubey was playing with Wadkar after scoring 11 runs. Nair, who joined Vidarbha at the beginning of the season, scored 74 runs in 220 balls with the help of three fours. Wadkar hit six fours in 91 balls and he and Nair added 90 runs in 173 balls for the fifth wicket. The Mumbai team took two wickets each in the first two sessions and the wicket of Nair in the final stages. Musheer Khan, who scored a century in Mumbai's second innings, took two wickets for 24 runs. Tanush Kotian took two wickets for 55 runs by sending Dhruv Shorey (28) and Yash Rathod (7) back to the pavilion.