Vishwas Puri
The batting of the Mumbai team in their second innings of Irani Cup is totally opposite as compared to their first innings, the team that put up a giant score of 536 in the first innings is currently six down at a score of 153 by the end of day 4.
Both Abhimanyu Eshwaran and Dhruv Jurel took their team to 393 runs, but after the wicket of Dhruv Jurel, the whole batting order collapsed within 24 runs . The ROI team, which was at 393 runs with a loss of four wickets, went all out for 416 runs. Abhimanyu Eshwaran missed his well deserved double century by a margin of just nine runs, whereas Dhruv Jurel, who was released from the Indian squad before the second test against Bangladesh, in order to allow him to play the Irani Cup, also scored 93 runs and lost his wicket before his century. Shams Mulani and Tanush Kotian bagged three wickets, whereas Mohit Awasthi and Mohammad Juned Khan got two and one wicket respectively. Shardul Thakur could not ball more than 4 overs and went wicketless as he was hospitalized after he batted in the first innings despite having a high fever.
When the Mumbai team came to bat in the second inning. Prithvi Shaw started scoring runs at a good strike rate. Shaw scored 76 runs off 105 balls, but unfortunately got bowled out through top Edge by getting trapped in the ball of spinner, Saransh Jain. Apart from Prithvi, all the batsmen who batted in the innings went flop. No batter other than Prithvi could cross the mark of 20 runs. The team has only four wickets left in the innings, but the hero of the first innings, Sarfaraz Khan, who scored 221 runs in the first innings and was the last man standing, is still on the crease and will continue his innings on the day 5. The off spinner Saransh Jain earned wows by clinching 4 wickets in the innings by scalping the wickets of Prithvi Shaw, Ayush Mhatre,Shreyas Iyer and Shams Mulani. Whereas the left arm off spinner Manav Suthar also bagged two wickets
If Sarfaraz continues to bat in more than a session tomorrow, the chances of Mumbai winning the match will be much higher. As we know, In the Irani Cup, if the match ends in a draw, the team performing better in the first innings will win the match, which means that if ROI does not manage to win the match, Mumbai will be declared the winners of the match, even if the match ends in a draw
