Kolkata
India’s T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav returned to the form and scored a 139 -run innings with captain Ajinkya Rahane (88 not out), which made a significant partnership of 139 runs with defending champions Mumbai on Monday, the third day of the Ranji Trophy quarter -finals Tightened the screws. With the help of brilliant bowling by fast bowler Shardul Thakur (five wickets for 58), Mumbai took a 14 -run lead to Haryana for 301 runs in the first innings.
The 42 -time champion Mumbai, who scored 315 runs in the first innings, has scored 278 runs for four wickets in 67 overs in his second innings till the end of the third day’s play and thus its total lead has been 292 runs. Rahane batted with patience as usual. He has so far hit 10 fours after facing 142 balls. Suryakumar, who has been struggling to score runs for some time, has hit 8 fours and 2 sixes in his 86 -ball innings. Both of them played a century partnership at a time when Mumbai’s three wickets went for 100 runs.
Mumbai lost the wickets of openers Akash Anand (10), Ayush Mhatre (31) and Siddhesh Lad (43) quickly. All -rounder Shivam Dubey was playing 30 runs with Rahane at the end of the third day’s play. Earlier, Haryana extended their first innings by 263 runs for five wickets and lost the remaining five wickets within just 38 runs. Apart from Shardul from Mumbai, Shams Mulani and Tanush Kotian took two wickets each. All eyes were on Suryakumar, however, was able to score only 28 runs in a series of five T20 Internationals against England.
He made his intentions with three fours on Sumit Kumar and then did not take long to complete the half -century. Surya Kumar scored a half -century after 14 innings in all kinds of cricket in this way. Earlier, his highest score in the last 10 innings was 20 runs. He hook Anuj Thakral’s ball and catch the midon.
