Madkaikar ton propels Mumbai
Mumbai earned five first innings points against Saurashtra in the Vijay Merchant Trophy at the Rajkot Municipal Corporation Cricket Ground on Monday
Waleed Hussain
18-Dec-2000
Mumbai earned five first innings points against Saurashtra in the Vijay Merchant
Trophy at the Rajkot Municipal Corporation Cricket Ground on Monday. The hosts
collected three from the draw.
Mumbai, deciding to bat first had a disastrous start to their innings losing
skipper Swapnoj Thakur to the first legitimate ball of the innings. Rohan
Saldana (34) and Sahil Kukreja added 77 runs off 23 overs for the second wicket.
The top order continued its bad form with three of the batsman making starts but
failing to capitalise on the innings. The star of the innings was allrounder
Parag Madkaikar who scored 151 off 308 balls, hitting 19 bounadries in his
mammoth innings. He was well supported by stumper Pradosh Mayekar (63) off 94
balls. The duo added 106 off 32 overs for the sixth wicket. Mumbai were bowled
out for 411 off 136.3 overs.
In reply, Saurashtra were bowled out for 296 in 111.2 overs. Cheteshwar Pujara
scored a patient 52 off 257 balls, with eight hits to the fence. Utpal Rana was
the other half centurion in the innings with 50 off 60 balls, nine hits to the
ropes. Nikhil Rathod and Rahul Parmar chipped in with 46 and 40 respectively.
Arif Sunsara bagged four for 74. Mumbai batted in the second innings for 85
minutes and at close of play were 24 for no loss in 20 overs.