Patna: At the end of the third day’s play in the Ranji Trophy match between Mumbai and Bihar at the local Moinul Haq Stadium, Bihar were struggling at 91 for the loss of six wickets after being forced to follow on in their second innings.
In this match, after winning the toss, Bihar invited Mumbai to bat. Mumbai were all out scoring 251 runs in the first innings, while Bihar were all out for 100 runs in the first innings and Bihar had to follow on.
Bihar, who were at 89 runs for six wickets on the second day, was all out after scoring 100 runs in the first innings. Akash Raj scored the highest score for Bihar, Akash Raj was out after scoring 32 runs. In the first innings for Mumbai, Mohit Awasthi took 6 wickets, Shivam Dubey took 2 wickets and Royston Dias took one wicket.
After follow-on, Bihar’s Shraman Nigrodh Nigrodh and Vaibhav Suryavanshi boosted the hopes by playing some aggressive shots in the beginning, but Vaibhav Suryavanshi was caught by Sams Mulani while trying to hit a long shot on the ball of Tanush on the individual score of 12. At this time the team’s score was 38 runs. After this, Shraman Nigrodh was out after scoring 40 runs, Sakibul Gani and Sachin Kumar Singh were out without opening their accounts. Akash Raj was out after scoring 5 runs and Babul Kumar was out after scoring one run. At the end of the third day’s play, Bipin Saurav was unbeaten on 30 runs in 35 balls with the help of 4 fours and one six and Ashutosh Aman was unbeaten on 2 runs in 22 balls. For Mumbai, Shivam Dubey took 4 wickets while Sams Mulani and Tanush took 1 wicket each. Due to bad light, the match started one and a half hours late and ended half an hour early.