Cooch Behar Trophy, Mumbai vs Vidarbha: Thanks to the half-centuries of Vidarbha captain Kush Sharma and Gaurav Nikam, Vidarbha scored 230 runs for 6 wickets at the end of the second day’s play in reply to Mumbai’s 331 runs in the first innings in the Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy cricket tournament. To take the first innings lead, Vidarbha still needs 102 runs with 4 batsmen left. In such a situation, there will be an exciting battle for lead between the two teams on the third day.

Kush’s aggressive game

In response to Mumbai’s first innings score of 331 runs at the VCA Stadium in Civil Lines, Vidarbha’s openers made a good start and took the team’s score to 45 runs. On this score, Abhay Patel gave Mumbai its first success by dismissing Tushar Kadu (17). After this, Kush showed aggressive play and played a quick inning of 55 runs (38 balls, 7 fours, 3 sixes). He along with Gaurav Nikam took the team to 85 runs but Himanshu Singh broke this partnership.

Gaurav’s aggressive batting

Malhar Dhurad returned to the pavilion after scoring 3 runs and Rajveer Jolly after scoring 22 runs. Meanwhile, Gaurav batted patiently and played an important inning of 54 runs (77 balls, 8 fours). However, Sarthak Bhide gave a big blow to Vidarbha by dismissing Gaurav. In the same over, Arnav Lunge was also out without opening the account and the team’s position became 184 for 6 wickets.

After this, Iknoor Singh and Om Dhotre took care of Vidarbha by batting intelligently. Both finished the day’s play unbeaten. Iknoor is 45 not out, while Om Dhotre is playing on 28 not out. Himanshu Singh and Sarthak Bhide took 2-2 wickets for Mumbai.

3 batsmen could add only 59 runs

Earlier, Mumbai progressed from 272 runs for 7 wickets and ended its first innings at 331 runs. Sarthak Bhide took his unbeaten inning of 14 runs to 21. Vedant Gurav contributed 15 runs and Himanshu Singh contributed 26 unbeaten runs. Captain Kush Sharma took maximum 4 wickets for Vidarbha. Soham Dev took 2 wickets, while Sarthak Dhabdgaonkar, Yash Titre and Om Dhotre took one wicket each.