Mighty Mumbai make a shock exit after 3rd loss

Mumbai, Jan. 15: Domestic giants Mumbai crashed out of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy after suffering their third straight defeat — this time by eight wickets against Haryana in an Elite ‘E’ Group league game — here on Friday.

The loss meant Mumbai’s campaign is over, although they still have two more games left in hand.

As per the format of the tournament, the top ranked teams from each group (six groups in total) will qualify for the knock-out stage, along with the next two teams in Elite Groups ‘A’ to

E with the most points.

So even if Mumbai win their last two games, they will only have eight points which will not be enough to make it to the knock-outs from Elite Group ‘E’ as there are two other teams already with 12 points apart from current tabletoppers Kerala.

Opting to bat at the BKC ground, Mumbai was bundled out for a meagre 143 with seasoned off-spinner Jayant Yadav (4/22) and right-arm medium pacer Arun Chaprana (3/22) doing bulk of the damage.

For Mumbai, barring young opener Yashasvi

Jaiswal (35), the entire toporder faltered. Haryana then rode on Himanshu Rana’s blazing unbeaten 75 off 53 balls to chase down the target without much fuss, despite being down 2 for 27 at one stage. — PTI

BRIEF SCORES Mumbai 143 in 19.3 overs (Atharva Ankolekar 37, Yashasvi Jaiswal 35; Jayant Yadav 4/22; Arun Chaprana 3/22) lost to Haryana 144/2 in 17.4 overs (Himanshu Rana 75 n.o., Shivam Chauhan 43 n.o.; Arjun Tendulkar 1/34).

■ Delhi 212/4 in 20 overs (Shikhar Dhawan 77; Lalit Yadav

52 n.o.; S. Sreesanth 2/46) lost to Kerala 218/4 in 19 overs (Robin Uthappa 91, Vishnu Vinod 71 n.o.)