Super Mumbai make it five on the trot

Yashasvi Jaiswal

Mumbai stretched their tremendous winning streak to five matches as they beat Rajasthan by 20 runs in their Group A encounter of the Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament on Tuesday.

Coming from a rare failure in the last game against Vidarbha, the swash-buckling opener Prithvi Shaw started superbly scoring 32 off just 17 balls, hitting two sixes and three fours. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a sublime 46 before getting out to Aniket Choudhary in the eighth over. His knock was filled with glorious strokes both sides of the pitch.

It was Sarfaraz Khan (37) and Shivam Dube's (26)knocks through which took Mumbai reached a respectable total of 159-6. Both leg-spinners Rahul Chahar (2-18) and Ravi Bishnoi (2-29) impressed for Rajasthan. Bishnoi trapped Ajinkya Rahane on the very first ball.

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In reply Rajasthan could only manage 139-7 in 20 overs. They were reeling at 47-4 in the eighth over before Samarpit Joshi (28) and Mahipal Lomror (46) stitched a crucial stand of 75 runs. They threatened to take the game away before Mohit Awasthi scalped the crucial wicket of Lomror in the 18th over. Pacer Tushar Deshpande also impressed with his accuracy, returning miserly figures of 2-12.

On Thursday, Mumbai will face Railways who have only won two of their five games.

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