Mumbai: Driving Ninad Rathva to long-off for a single, Musheer Khan, batting on 128 overnight, celebrated floating on ‘Cloud 200,’ raising both is hands up in the air, looking towards his father-cum-coach Naushad Khan, who was applauding his son’s major milestone at the Mumbai Cricket Association’s ground in BKC. Consuming 357 balls and stroking 18 fours to convert his first First-Class century into a double century in Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy quarter-final against Baroda, the 18-year-old on Saturday proved that he had the same penchant for scoring ‘daddy hundreds’ that his elder brother, India’s Test batsman Sarfaraz Khan has in red-ball cricket.
The youngster also justified being pulled out for this match from Mumbai’s Under-23 team at the last minute. “It’s a special feeling to score my maiden First-Class double ton. I’ve scored double hundreds (250 each) against Baroda at the Under-14 and U-16 level, and now in the Ranji Trophy. I only missed out scoring a double century against them at the Under-19 level, because I didn’t play them there,” Musheer told TOI.
For almost a day and a session, Musheer’s marathon knock (203 not out, 357b, 18×4), and a superb support act by ‘keeper-bat Hardik Tamore (57, 248b, 3×4), put Mumbai on top of Baroda with their mammoth 443-ball 181-run stand for the sixth wicket. However, on Day 2, the visitors fought back through their left-arm spinners, who took all the 10 wickets for them as they restricted Mumbai to 384 in the first innings. While Bhargav Bhatt produced his career-best figures of seven for 112 after toiling for 42.4 overs, Rathva supported him well, taking three for 86 in 38 overs. Making his First-Class debut, Raj Limbani, who played for the India under-19 team in the U-19 World Cup in South Africa recently, returned wicketless.
Baroda had to wait till 11.33 am to finally break the Musheer-Tamore stand, when Tamore nicked one to first slip off Rathva. How much Mumbai valued Tamore’s ultra-patient half-century can be gauged by the fact that Musheer ran all the way to the 26-year-old to pat his back after when he was walking back to the pavilion.
Thereafter, Baroda didn’t take much time to wrap up Mumbai’s innings, taking the last four wickets for just 20 runs.
Baroda stumbled at the start when their opener Priyanshu Moliya (1) was castled by Shardul Thakur in the second over, but thereafter, a fine half-century by Shashwat Rawat (69 not out, 88b, 9×4) ensured that Mumbai would sleep uneasy.
Brief Scores: Mumbai 383 in 140.4 overs (Prithvi Shaw 33, Musheer Khan 203*, Hardik Tamore 57; Bhargav Bhatt 7/112, Ninad Rathva 3/86) lead Baroda 127/2 in 35 overs (Jyotsnil Singh 32, Shashwat Rawat 69*) by 257 runs. Vidarbha 460 all out in 143.1 overs (Atharva Taide 109, Yash Rathod 93, Karun Nair 90, Yash Thakur 31; Vidwath Kaverappa 4-99) leads Karnataka 98-2 in 24 overs (Ravikumar Samarth 43*, K V Aneesh 34) by 362 runs. Saurashtra 183 trails Tamil Nadu 300-6 in 100 overs (Narayan Jagadeesan 37, Sai Kishore 60, Baba Indrajith 80, Boopathi Kumar 65; Parth Bhut 2-76) by 117 runs. Madhya Pradesh 234 in 81.1 overs (Yash Dubey 64, Himanshu Mantri 49; Nithish Kumar Reddy 3/50, KV Sasikanth 4/37) & 21-0 leads Andhra 172 in 68.3 ovs (Ricky Bhui 32, Karan Shinde 38; Anubhav Agarwal 3-33, Kumar Kartkeya 3-41) by 83 runs.
The youngster also justified being pulled out for this match from Mumbai’s Under-23 team at the last minute. “It’s a special feeling to score my maiden First-Class double ton. I’ve scored double hundreds (250 each) against Baroda at the Under-14 and U-16 level, and now in the Ranji Trophy. I only missed out scoring a double century against them at the Under-19 level, because I didn’t play them there,” Musheer told TOI.
For almost a day and a session, Musheer’s marathon knock (203 not out, 357b, 18×4), and a superb support act by ‘keeper-bat Hardik Tamore (57, 248b, 3×4), put Mumbai on top of Baroda with their mammoth 443-ball 181-run stand for the sixth wicket. However, on Day 2, the visitors fought back through their left-arm spinners, who took all the 10 wickets for them as they restricted Mumbai to 384 in the first innings. While Bhargav Bhatt produced his career-best figures of seven for 112 after toiling for 42.4 overs, Rathva supported him well, taking three for 86 in 38 overs. Making his First-Class debut, Raj Limbani, who played for the India under-19 team in the U-19 World Cup in South Africa recently, returned wicketless.
Baroda had to wait till 11.33 am to finally break the Musheer-Tamore stand, when Tamore nicked one to first slip off Rathva. How much Mumbai valued Tamore’s ultra-patient half-century can be gauged by the fact that Musheer ran all the way to the 26-year-old to pat his back after when he was walking back to the pavilion.
Thereafter, Baroda didn’t take much time to wrap up Mumbai’s innings, taking the last four wickets for just 20 runs.
Baroda stumbled at the start when their opener Priyanshu Moliya (1) was castled by Shardul Thakur in the second over, but thereafter, a fine half-century by Shashwat Rawat (69 not out, 88b, 9×4) ensured that Mumbai would sleep uneasy.
Brief Scores: Mumbai 383 in 140.4 overs (Prithvi Shaw 33, Musheer Khan 203*, Hardik Tamore 57; Bhargav Bhatt 7/112, Ninad Rathva 3/86) lead Baroda 127/2 in 35 overs (Jyotsnil Singh 32, Shashwat Rawat 69*) by 257 runs. Vidarbha 460 all out in 143.1 overs (Atharva Taide 109, Yash Rathod 93, Karun Nair 90, Yash Thakur 31; Vidwath Kaverappa 4-99) leads Karnataka 98-2 in 24 overs (Ravikumar Samarth 43*, K V Aneesh 34) by 362 runs. Saurashtra 183 trails Tamil Nadu 300-6 in 100 overs (Narayan Jagadeesan 37, Sai Kishore 60, Baba Indrajith 80, Boopathi Kumar 65; Parth Bhut 2-76) by 117 runs. Madhya Pradesh 234 in 81.1 overs (Yash Dubey 64, Himanshu Mantri 49; Nithish Kumar Reddy 3/50, KV Sasikanth 4/37) & 21-0 leads Andhra 172 in 68.3 ovs (Ricky Bhui 32, Karan Shinde 38; Anubhav Agarwal 3-33, Kumar Kartkeya 3-41) by 83 runs.