Shardul six-for helps Mumbai boss Bengal

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Shardul Thakur dismissed six of Bengal’s top seven to rack up figures of 6 for 31 as Mumbai rolled out Bengal for 99 in Nagpur. Mumbai then went on to score 164 for 5, riding on Kaustubh Pawar’s 112-ball 78.

Bengal collapsed from 90 for 3 to 99 all out, with the last four wickets falling without adding a single run. Dhawal Kulkarni took three of those four wickets, thereby ensuring that Bengal’s lower order was wiped out for next to nothing. In reply, Mumbai rode on Pawar’s knock and handy starts from Jay Bista and Shreyas Iyer to march to 119 for 1. But Bengal hit back with four wickets towards the end of the day to regain some lost ground even as Mumbai closed with a 65-run lead.

Madhya Pradesh and Baroda vied for the upper hand on an evenly-contested bowler’s day in Dharamsala, in which 12 wickets fell for 248 runs all told.

After being put in to bat, Madhya Pradesh were bowled out for 217 after …

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