Arjun in Shaw-led Mumbai squad
MUMBAI: Prithvi Shaw will lead the 20-man Mumbai squad that also has Arjun Tendulkar for the Ranji Trophy games against Maharashtra and Delhi next month, the selection committee announced on Wednesday.
This is the first time Arjun, son of Sachin Tendulkar, has been picked in the Ranji Trophy squad. The left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batter scored 85 in an U-25 Shalini Bhalekar Trophy match on Tuesday, while also picking up 4/57 for MIG against eventual champions and a formidable Parsee Gymkhana outfit in the Police
Shield semi-finals last week.
Earlier this year, Tendulkar was picked up by Mumbai Indians for the IPL season.
Squad: P Shaw (C), Y Jaiswal, A Gomel, A Jaffer, S Khan, S Yadav, A Tare, H Tamore, S Dube, A Khan, S Mulani, T Kotian, P Solanki, S Attarde, D Kulkarni, M Avasthi, P Badiani, S Raut, R
Dias, A Tendulkar
Musheer pushes Mumbai towards victory
Musheer Khan put Mumbai well on their way towards victory by picking up four wickets to reduce Haryana to 109/5 in the second innings of their U-19 Cooch Behar Trophy tie.
Resuming the third day at 342/7, Mumbai got to 373 in response to Haryana’s first innings total of 247, a lead of 126. Backing up his four-wicket first innings haul, Khan troubled the Haryana batters again, picking up 4/48 in 31 overs. Brief scores: Haryana 247 & 109/5 in 65 ov (M Khan 4/48) v
373 in 115.3 ov (S Singh
73*)
Shalini Bhalekar Trophy brief scores: Jahangir Pithawala XI 577/6d in 122 ov (P Kela 136*) v Lalchand Rajput XI 170/2 in 51 ov (B Lalwani 92); Dilip Vengsarkar XI 379/9d v Chandrakant Pandit XI 315/8 in 79 ov (J Pokhare 97, D Saxena 65, M Manjrekar 62*; P Devkate 3/80)