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Powar bowls his heart out

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Vinay Kumar completes century; Mumbai has its task cut out

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Mumbai off-spinner Ramesh Powar came up with his best figures in Ranji Trophy. — Photo: Mohammed Yousuf

HYDERABAD: Mumbai off-spinner Ramesh Powar's best Ranji figures and a century by D. Vinay Kumar for Hyderabad were the highlights of the third day of the Ranji Trophy Super League Group `B' match at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium (Uppal) here on Tuesday.

But, Mumbai was in trouble thanks to a lively spell by medium-pacer Alfred Absolom who struck three big blows to reduce the visitor to 62 for three at one stage. But, Vinayak Mane (33 batting, 138b, 2x4) and Rohit Sharma (33 batting, 70b, 5x4) prevented further damage.

Hyderabad took a lead of 239 runs largely due to the enterprising 126-run stand between Vinay, who cracked his fourth Ranji century (103, 228b, 10x4, 1x6), and Ibrahim Khaleel (68, 3x4) for the sixth wicket.

Good spell

This despite Powar bowling his heart out (his spell today read 12.2-2-24-5) and his figures of seven for 89 eclipsed his previous best of six for 83 against Delhi last season.

The off-spinner had the batsmen in knots and he got rid of the well-set Vinay with a beauty which spun in sharply and knocked back the stumps through the bat-pad gap.

When Mumbai began the huge task of saving the match, it was rocked by Alfred Absolom. The medium-pacer trapped Sushant Marathe leg-before and then took a brilliant diving return catch to send back Bhavin Thakkar.

Mumbai captain Amol Mazumdar was unhappy and fuming when he was adjudged leg-before to Absolom when he had played fully forward. Mumbai's hopes of saving the match now rest on the competent Mane and Rohit Sharma, who showed a lot of promise.

The scores:

Mumbai — 1st innings: 115

Hyderabad — 1st innings: T. Suman c Mota b Hazare 6, D.B. Ravi Teja c Mazumdar b Waingankar 45, P. Sashank Nag c Mazumdar b Powar 36, Anirudh Singh c R. Sharma b Powar 21, N. Arjun Yadav lbw b Hazare 29, D. Vinay Kumar b Powar 103, Ibrahim Khaleel c Mazumdar b Powar 68, M.P. Arjun c R. Sharma b Powar 5, Alfred Absolom c R. Sharma b Powar 16, P. Kaushik Reddy b Powar 13, P. Ojha (not out) 0; Extras: (b-2, lb-2, w-3): 7; Total: (inclusive of five penalty runs, in 161.2 overs): 354.

Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-73, 3-110, 4-133, 5-174, 6-300, 7-308, 8-340, 9-345.

Mumbai bowling: Hazare 35-14-70-2, Waingankar 25-4-63-1, Mota 20-5-34-0, Powar 41.2-9-89-7, Thakkar 3-0-10-0, Nilesh Kulkarni 33-11-61-0, N.S. Shetty 2-1-11-0, Mazumdar 1-0-3-0, Mane 1-0-4-0.

Mumbai — 2nd innings: V.R. Mane (batting) 33, S. Marathe lbw b Absolom 16, B.J. Thakkar c&b Absolom 3, A .Mazumdar lbw b Absolom 9, Rohit Sharma (batting) 33; Extras: (b-8, lb-1, w-5): 14; Total (for three wkts. in 45 overs): 108.

Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-44, 3-62

Hyderabad bowling: Kaushik Reddy 10-4-19-0, M.P. Arjun 8-3-12-0, Absolom 10-0-36-3, Ojha 14-6-20-0, Arjun Yadav 2-0-4-0, Ravi Teja 1-0-8-0.

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