Mumbai pacer Mohit Avasthi secured his successive fifer (6-27), while Shivam Dube showcased his all-round ability (41 runs and six wickets in the game) against Bihar in their Elite Group &lsquo;B&rsquo; <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/photo/in-photos-ranji-trophy-highest-run-scores-in-history-of-the-tournament-98897" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Ranji Trophy</a> game in Patna on Sunday.
The hosts were struggling at 91-6 on following-on, trailing by 60 at stumps on Day Three at the Moin-ul-Haq Stadium.
In reply to Mumbai&rsquo;s 251, the Ashutosh Aman-led team were bowled out for 100, thanks to Avasthi&rsquo;s disciplined bowling, good support from medium pacer Dube (2-13) and left-arm pacer Royston Dias (1-29).
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<img title="Raju Kulkarni" src="http://origin.mid-day.com/images/2024/jan/mumbai-tanji-jan-b_e.jpg" alt="Raju Kulkarni" width="1280" height="720" />Raju Kulkarni
The hosts struggled to counter the visitors&rsquo; bowling in the second innings too when Dube (10-7-7-4) bowled a fiery spell. Left-arm spinner <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/article/mumbai-s-shams-mulani-hopes-to-replicate-ranji-performance-in-irani-cup-23272887" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Shams Mulani</a> and off-spinner Tanush Kotian took one wicket apiece. &nbsp; &nbsp;
Avasthi, 31, who bagged a fifer (5-89) in his last game against Maharashtra at the Brabourne Stadium last January, was delighted to repeat his feat in the first game of the season.
&ldquo;Yes, it&rsquo;s certainly good to get back-to-back fifers. The challenging nature of first-class cricket demands that you have to be at your best every moment. So, it&rsquo;s good to achieve successive fifers.&nbsp;
But as a cricketer, you don&rsquo;t think of the milestones while playing; only look to get your process right.&nbsp;
The satisfaction arrives when you are able to execute.&nbsp;
&ldquo;The first goal from here is to secure an outright win for my team,&rdquo; Avasthi told mid-day on Sunday.
Mumbai chief selector Raju Kulkarni lavished praise on the bowlers for their dominant performance and expects the team to record a big win today. &ldquo;We have to play [well] to earn seven points,&rdquo; Kulkarni said. &nbsp;
Dube, 30, last played a red-ball cricket in 2019 when he represented India &lsquo;A&rsquo; against <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/article/sa-vs-ind-2nd-test-the-two-day-standoff-south-africa-vs-india-mohammed-siraj-aiden-markram-23328327" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">South Africa</a> &lsquo;A&rsquo;. He scored 68 and claimed Vernon Philander&rsquo;s wicket in Mysore. When Kulkarni was asked about the Mumbai all-rounder, he remarked: &ldquo;Shivam&rsquo;s main strength is his accuracy. His bowling is not complicated and he bowls stump to stump, which is required on this [Patna] pitch. He bowls quite well. I see his role as coming on to bowl to give some rest to the pace bowlers. At the same time, he has a golden arm, which gives us one or two wickets, crucial breakthroughs.&rdquo;
Brief scores Mumbai 251 v Bihar 100 (A Raj 32; M Avasthi 6-27, S Dube 2-13) &amp; 91-6 (S Nigrodh 40, B Saurabh 30*; S Dube 4-7)&nbsp;
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