Ranji Trophy: Unadkat leads Saurashtra's fightback despite Iyer's valiant ton
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Jaydev Unadkat scored crucial 31 runs at the end of the innings, before coming out to dismiss both the Mumbai openers, to bring Saurashtra back into the match. Shreyas Iyer's brilliant century recovered the situation for Mumbai, however, a late collapse has put the match hanging in the balance.
Brief Scores: Saurashtra 235 in 93.2 overs (Arpit Vasavada 77(214), Prerak Mankad 66(142), Kulkarni 5/42, Thakur 3/89 trial Mumbai 262/8 in 66 overs (Shreyas Iyer 117(142), Suryakumar Yadav 48(112), Hardik Rathod 3/44, Chirag Jani 2/46) by 27 runs
After scoring 192/8 on day 1, Saurashtra added 43 more runs in the first session on day 2, before Dhawal Kulkarni and Shardul Thakur wrapped up the tail. Kulkarni finished with impressive figures of
Mumbai got off to a poor start in their first innings as Jaydev Unadkat, who made a quickfire 31 with the bat in the morning, removed Akhil Herwadkar with the second ball of his opening over. The Mumbai opener in an attempt to drive the ball on the
In the seventh over, Bhavin Thakkar also went back to the pavilion as Unadkat knocked his stumps back with a perfect in-swinging delivery. Mumbai
Iyer scored a stunning century and remained on track to break VVS Laxman's record of most runs in a Ranji season. However, after his dismissal for 117 runs, Mumbai lost their way once again, as they lost six wickets for just 75 runs and went from 175/2 to 250/8 in the space of 22 overs.
Hardik Rathod and Chirag Jani broke Mumbai's middle and lower-middle order and Siddhesh Lad (22 runs of 57 balls) was the only batsman holding the fort for his team at the close of play on day 2.Â
