Today was the final day of the Irani Trophy at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. Mumbai defeated Rest of India to lift Irani trophy after 27 years. Captain Ajinkya Rahane's team has won the trophy.
Sarfaraz Khan, who has scored a double century, has been declared the player of the match. On the fifth day of the match on Saturday, Tanush Kotia scored an unbeaten 114 runs. Kotian and Mohit Awasthi shared a partnership of 123 runs off 163 balls for the ninth wicket.
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Mumbai team has won the Irani Cup after 27 years.
Mumbai were declared the winners based on the first innings lead.
Tanush Kotian celebrates after scoring a century at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.
Mumbai took the lead in the first innings Mumbai took a lead of 121 runs in the first innings. In the first innings, Mumbai scored 537 runs for the loss of 10 wickets. After this, the Rest of India team could score only 416 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, the Mumbai team scored 329 runs for the loss of 8 wickets.
Mohit Awasthi and Tanush Kotian shared 158 runs in 200 balls for the ninth wicket. After taking the lead in the first innings, the Mumbai team did not give Rest of India a chance to play the second innings.
The Mumbai team took a lead of 450 runs in the Rest of India. This is Mumbai's 16th Irani Trophy. Mumbai shared one trophy with another team.
Mumbai captain Ajinkya Rahane said after winning the Irani trophy that we also play on a red clay pitch in Wankhede. We had an idea how the pitch would play. Tanush Kotia has given a brilliant performance.
Rest of India captain Rituraj Gaikwad said Sarfraz and Tanush had a great partnership. Shardul also added some runs in the first innings. Due to which the problem increased. Dhruv Jurel, Abhimanyu Iswaran played well. Summary Jain bowled well in the second innings.
Shaw's half century in the second innings for Mumbai In the second innings, Mumbai's first wicket fell on the score of 52 runs. Prithvi Shaw scored a half century. He was dismissed for 76 off 105 balls. He hit 8 fours and one six in the innings. After this the duo of Saransh Jain and Manav Suthar took wickets at regular intervals.
Mumbai players celebrated after the wicket fell.
The fourth day was in the name of the spinners, Mumbai got the lead The fourth day of Irani Trophy was in the name of spinners. During this period, the spinners took 11 wickets throughout the day. Only one wicket Yash Dayal was run out. The Mumbai team had taken a lead of 274 runs by the end of the match. The first three days of the match were in the name of the batsmen and the pacers.
On the fourth day of the match, Rest of India started with 289 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in the first innings. Meanwhile, the entire team was all out for 416 runs in 10 overs. Tanush Kotian and Shams Mulani took 3 each and Mohit Awasthi took 2 wickets. Mohammad Junaid got one wicket.
Mumbai got a lead of 121 runs after Rest of India were dismissed in the first innings. By the end of the fourth day's play, the Mumbai team has scored 153 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 40 overs. The Mumbai team took a lead of 274 runs over Rest of India. The Mumbai team scored 537 runs in the first innings.
This picture is of Abhimanyu. He scored a century.
Abhimanyu To God 191 of the run innings had played After Dhruv Jurrell was dismissed for 393 runs, the entire team lost six wickets for just 23 runs. After this, Abhimanyu Iswaran was also dismissed on the score of 396 runs off the ball of Shams Mulani. There was a partnership of 165 runs between the two. Abhimanyu scored 191 runs off 292 balls. He hit 16 fours and one six in the innings.
Rest of India Won the toss and fielded first
After winning the toss, Rest of India chose to bowl first. Mumbai batted till the first session on the third day and scored 537 runs. Sarfraz Khan was not out scoring 222 runs. While Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane and Tanush Kotian scored fifties.
Mukesh Kumar took 5 wickets Fast bowler Mukesh Kumar has taken 5 wickets from Rest of India. Yash Dayal and Ishtan Krishna got 2 wickets each. Along with this, off-spinner Saransh Jain got a breakthrough.
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