Ranji Trophy: Mumbai in command against UP after posting mammoth 610

Uttar Pradesh were fighting with their backs to the wall in quest of the first innings lead after Mumbai ran up a mammoth seasonhigh score of 610 for nine declared on day two of the fourday Ranji Trophy Group B game todayIn reply UP plodded their way to 51 for no loss in 27 overs trailing the home team by 559 runs with lefthanded openers Tanmay Srivastava 30 and Himanshu Asnora 21 the unbeaten men at stumps at the Wankhede Stadium after batting for the entire final session of playShreyas Iyer top scored for MumbaiIn the morning Mumbai commenced at their commanding overnight score of 407 for 4 and with Rohit Sharma at thecrease on an impressive 110 there were hopes of some sparkling strokeplayHowever it went up in smoke in the second over when Sharma who would join the Indian second Test squad at Bengaluru after the end of this game flashed outside the off stump against tall UP medium pacer Ankit Rajput and perished for 113 after a stay of 206 minutes He hit 13 fours and a six all struck yesterdayThe UP bowlers then kept things tight though they could not produce something extra to defeat the new pair of overnight unbeaten Siddhesh Lad and Abhishek NayarThe runs came at a trickle as the two batsmen added 90 runs in two and a half hours before lefthanded Nayar departed for an unconvincing 42 off 113 balls in the second over after lunchLad at the other end was slightly more enterprising and hit ten fours and a six in his 176ball essay that consumed 281 minutes but generally the home team batting lacked aggressionThe arrival of Shardul Thakur at the crease at the fall of Dhawal Kulkarni saw the scoring rate perk up as the medium pacer made a brisk 56 off 61 balls striking six fours and a sixLad finally fell to leg spinner Piyush Chawla while Thakur holed out in the deep in the first over from part time bowler Umang Sharma who was brought on to bowl after the score crossed the 600 markMumbai declared the innings closed at 610 for 9 and tea was called after adding 203 runs in 65 overs and 291 minutes from morningIn a generally unimpressive bowling display Bhuvneshwar Kumar who will also leave for Bengaluru afterthe game to join the rest of his second Test teammates took 2 for 99 while Rajput secured 2 for 112Brief scores Mumbai 610 for 9 decl A Herwadkar 58 S Iyer 137 R Sharma 113 S Yadav 58 S Lad 89 A Nayar 42 S Thakur 56 B Kumar 2 for 99 A Rajput 2 for 112 UP 51 for no loss T Srivastava not out 30 H Asnora not out 21SSC SSCRDS11081851NNNN