Minnows Tripura earned a well-deserved 53-run victory over heavyweights Mumbai in a rain-affected group A league match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Bengaluru on Sunday. Despite the loss, Mumbai are firmly on the right track for a quarter-final berth as they’re nonetheless on high of the group with 20 factors from six video games and a match left. Batting first, Tripura scored a aggressive 288 for five in 50 overs. In reply, Mumbai’s revised goal was 265 in 43 overs, courtesy VJD technique used as rain-rule for home video games.

But Tripura did properly to bowl out Ajinkya Rahane’s facet for 211 in 40.3 overs with seamer Manisankar Murasingh ending with 4 for 23 in 8.4 overs after having a smashed a half-century within the morning.

Skipper Rahane scored 78 off 84 balls however towards a not-so-formidable Tripura assault, the previous India skipper by no means regarded comfy.

When Tripura batted, opener Bikramkumar Das (70), former Bengal southpaw Sudip Chatterjee (60) and veteran Ganesh Sathish (50) scored half-centuries however the innings received impetus due to a quick-fire 26-ball-55 from all-rounder Manisankar Murasingh. His innings had 5 fours and three sixes.

Tushar Deshpande, who lately acquired an India ‘A’ call-up took 2 for 57 in 10 overs.

Delhi journey on Himmat’s hundred however nonetheless in woods

In Ahmedabad, Himmat Singh blazed his method to an unbeaten 132 off 100 balls as Delhi beat Chandigarh by 69 runs however will nonetheless discover it tough to make it to quarter-final of the nationwide in the future championship, with simply 12 factors after six video games and solely a match left.

On the day, Delhi had been down at 80 for 4, however Himmat and Lakshay Thareja (66 off 78 balls) added 199 runs for the unbroken fifth wicket stand to take winners to 279 for 4 in 50 overs.

Himmat’s innings had 10 fours and 6 sixes whereas glovesman Thareja had six fours in his second fiddle.

In reply, Chandigarh was all-out for 210 in 44.2 overs with India ‘A’ duo of Navdeep Saini and Harshit Rana getting three wickets apiece.

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