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THE TIMES OF INDIA | Mar 10, 2024, 09:29:07 IST
Mumbai vs Vidarbha Ranji Trophy Final Live Score, MUM vs VID: Led by an astute captain in Ajinkya Rahane, Mumbai will look to maintain their hegemony on Ranji Trophy with a 42nd title but a gutsy and battle-hardened Vidarbha won't make it easy for the legacy champions in the much-anticipated final. In Mumbai, coming second best is never an option and nothing short of a title would satisfy the connoisseurs of Mumbai cricket sitting in the Garware pavilion of the Wankhede Stadium. Someone, who engineered India's greatest overseas series win in Australia three winters back, Rahane's international career has seen a sharp slump and right now he is not even in national reckoning.Read Less
If you look at the wicket, there’s a lot of green grass covering. There is some moisture and the first hour would be important as there will be movement on offer. After that, it would become good for batting.
Joy Mukherjee and Chetan Sharma in their pitch report
Mumbai XI: Prithvi Shaw, Bhupen Lalwani, Musheer Khan, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Tamore(w), Shams Mulani, Shardul Thakur, Tanush Kotian, Dhawal Kulkarni, Tushar Deshpande
Vidarbha XI: Atharva Taide, Dhruv Shorey, Aman Mokhade, Karun Nair, Yash Rathod, Akshay Wadkar(w/c), Harsh Dubey, Aditya Thakare, Aditya Sarwate, Yash Thakur, Umesh Yadav
Vidarbha won the toss and opt to bowl against Mumbai
Powerhouse Mumbai
While in 2013-14 Mumbai thrashed the visitors by 338 runs at the Wankhede, in 2018-19 Vidarbha walloped Mumbai by an innings and 145 runs at Nagpur
However, this is the first time that Mumbai and Vidarbha are meeting in the knockouts
Vidarbha have just come off a thrilling 62-run come from behind semifinal win over Madhya Pradesh. In Karun Nair (616 runs at 41.06) and Dhruv Shorey (549 runs at 36.6) they have two 'pros' who are at the top of their game
Vidarbha, who won back-to-back titles in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons under veteran coach Chandrakant Pandit, will be no pushovers
At a time when their captain has struggled for runs, Mumbai, playing their 48th Ranji final, have been served admirably by young gun Musheer Khan, who scored a double century against Baroda in the quarterfinals and a half century against Tamil Nadu in the semifinals
Led by captain Ajinkya Rahane who has excelled in leadership skills, Mumbai will look to annex the Ranji Trophy title No. 42; their first since the 2015-16 season, against two-time Ranji champions Vidarbha
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