When Mumbai met Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy semi-final last year, the 41-time champions thrashed Abhinav Mukund and Co. by six wickets.Both teams will face each other again in a Ranji Trophy Group 'C' encounter at the Mumbai Cricket Association's (MCA) BKC ground today in what will be, like most Mumbai v TN games, a hard fought battle. Tamil Nadu have big guns like India Test off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and India opening batsman Murali Vijay in their ranks, while Mumbai have been bolstered by the return of skipper Aditya Tare, in-form batsman Shreyas Iyer, teenage sensation Prithvi Shaw and pacer Dhawal Kulkarni.

Tamil Nadu off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin bowls in the nets at MCA's Bandra Kurla Complex ground yesterday