Mumbai will play their historic 500th Ranji Trophy match against Baroda at the Wankhede Stadium today with a full strength team which include India players like Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer and Shardul Thakur. Where the visitors are concerned, they face Mumbai without Irfan Pathan Yusuf Pathan and Pandya brothers Pandya and Krunal. Mumbai skipper Aditya Tare described the 500th match as a special game and felt the current players are quite fortunate to be in the squad for this historic encounter.

Mumbai's Ajinkya Rahane (left) and Prithvi Shaw train yesterday prior to their Ranji Trophy match against Baroda at Wankhede today. Mumbai will be playing their 500th Ranji match. Pic/Suresh Karkera