MUMBAI: They missed out on the bonus point when they lost first innings centurion Ayush Mhatre (15, caught at short cover off left-arm spinner Satyajeet Bachhav), but Mumbai took just 53 minutes on Monday morning to perform the last rites and wrap up a nine-wicket win over neighbours Maharashtra in their Ranji Trophy Elite Group A match at the MCA ground in BKC.
The defending champions thus achieved their primary objective of putting their campaign back on track after the stunning away defeat to Baroda, which was perhaps the perfect wake-up call, the hiccup they needed to find their groove in the 2024-25 Ranji season. The six points that they bagged in the ‘Maharashtra Derby’ here after Prithvi Shaw (39, 36b, 5x4) and ‘keeper-bat Hardik Tamore (21 not out, 26b, 3x3) knocked off the remaining runs, have now left them placed fourth in Group A, and they now travel to Agartala to play table-toppers Tripura from October 26.
