Vishwas Puri
The Rest of India team bounced back today on the third day of the Irani Trophy Cup. On day three, the Mumbai team, which had one wicket left, could only score one more run in the innings and lost the wicket of Juned Khan, which marked the end of the innings of the Mumbai team. Sarfaraz Khan, who scored a double century for Mumbai, remained unbeaten in the innings.
While coming to bat with a huge trail of 537 runs on board, the captain of the ROI team lost wicket, At just the score of 9 by edging it to the slip in the morning.
Whereas the other opener, Abhimanyu Eshwaran, single-handedly led his team to recover from the situation. Abhimanyu scored a century in the match in just 117 balls and was still on the crease by the end of day three. Abhimanyu has scored 151 runs with the help of 12 fours and one six and at a decent strike rate of 71.22.
Whereas Sai Sudarshan could only manage to score 32 runs and Devdutt Padikkal scored 16. Ishan Kishan also lost his wicket at 38 to Mohit Awasthi. Dhruv Jurel is still unbeaten by the end of Day 3 at a score of 38 runs. The innings of the ROI team ended at 289 at the loss of 4 wickets by the end of Day 3.
Among bowlers, Mohit Awasthi succeeded in picking up two wickets off Devdutt Parikkal and Ishan Kishan whereas Mohammed Juned Khan and Tanush Kotian, who claimed one wicket each. Shams Mulani bowled the most overs in the innings, but still ended up being the only wicketless bowler of the innings.
If Abhimanyu and Dhruv Jurel continue their partnership for one or two more sessions, there are chances that the game might turn in the favour of ROI on day 4
