30 January,2017 10:00 AM IST | | PTI
Skipper Aditya Tare smashed a quickfire 79 while Ajinkya Rahane returned to form with a fluent 78 as Mumbai beat Baroda by six runs in a high-scoring West Zone match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 tournament, here yesterday
Vadodara: Skipper Aditya Tare smashed a quickfire 79 while Ajinkya Rahane returned to form with a fluent 78 as Mumbai beat Baroda by six runs in a high-scoring West Zone match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 tournament, here yesterday.
Mumbai first rode on Rahane and Tare's exploits with the bat to post 211-3 and then restricted an equally potent Baroda to 205-8 to register a narrow win in the opener.
Asked to bat, Mumbai lost Shreyas Iyer early before Rahane and Tare joined hands to stitch a commanding 152-run stand for the second wicket to lay the foundation. Out of Indian Twenty20 squad due to poor form with the bat, Rahane roared back scoring his runs off just 53 balls with the help of 11 boundaries and one hit over the fence. Tare, on the other hand, was a tad faster than Rahane in piling up his runs off just 41 deliveries with five fours and as many sixes.
Towards the end Shivam Dubey scored an unbeaten 37 off just 13 balls with two fours and four sixes.
Baroda gave Mumbai a run for their money before eventually falling short. Vishnu Solanki (69' off 34 balls) was the star for Baroda, while Swapnil Singh (35) and opening duo of Miten Shah and Kedar Devdhar made 33 and 31 respectively, which was not enough in the end.
