Uttar Pradesh enjoyed an early advantage after former champions Mumbai collapsed in dramatic fashion in their first innings on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy semi-finals at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Friday.
At close, Uttar Pradesh were four for no loss in their first innings after restricting Mumbai to 199, six overs before stumps were drawn. Openers Jyoti Yadav was unbeaten on one and Shivakant Shukla was batting on two.
After losing the toss, Uttar Pradesh skipper and India star Mohd. Kaif set an attacking field that had Mumbai under pressure from the start.
As medium pacer Praveen Kumar trapped opener Vinayak Samant leg before with his first ball in the second over of the innings, Mumbai never recovered from the early setback and lost wickets at regular intervals.
Kumar was rewarded with four wickets, Salabh Srivastava bagged three and Piyush Chawla scalped two to give UP the edge.
Mumbai opener Sahil Kukreja defied the UP bowlers with a patient 49 and Ramesh Powar tried to take away the advantage before he was caught for 29, before a 46-run partnership for the last wicket between Swapnil Hazare and Avishkar Salvi rescued the hosts from further humiliation.
Scorecard:
Mumbai 1st innings
SO Kukreja c Amir Khan b Srivastava 49
VR Samant lbw b Kumar 0
VA Indulkar c Amir Khan b Srivastava 5
AA Muzumdar b Zaidi 17
NS Shetty c Shamshad b Kumar 6
OJ Khanvilkar c Kaif b Srivastava 14
RR Powar c Raina b Kumar 29
UR Malvi b Piyush Chawla 14
NM Kulkarni c Shukla b Piyush Chawla 6
SP Hazare not out 16
AM Salvi c Amir Khan b Kumar 25
Extras (b 8, lb 2, nb 8) 18
Total (all out, 84 overs) 199
FoW: 1-0 (Samant, 1.1 ov), 2-15 (Indulkar, 10.4 ov), 3-46 (Muzumdar, 25.6 ov), 4-60 (Shetty, 28.5 ov), 5-94 (Khanvilkar, 43.6 ov), 6-105 (Kukreja, 47.5 ov), 7-124 (Malvi, 52.5 ov), 8-148 (Powar, 61.3 ov), 9-153 (Kulkarni, 63.1 ov), 10-199 (Salvi, 83.6 ov).
Bowling
Zaidi 20-5-52-1 (3nb)
Kumar 24-7-32-4 (5nb)
Srivastava 17-3-40-3
Piyush Chawla 21-3-63-2
Raina 2-0-2-0
Uttar Pradesh 1st innings
Jyoti P Yadav not out 1
SK Shukla not out 2
Extras (nb 1) 1
Total (0 wickets, 4 overs) 4
To Bat: GK Pandey, SK Raina, *M Kaif, +Amir Khan, Piyush Chawla, P Kumar, AW Zaidi, SJ Srivastava, R Shamshad.
Bowling
Salvi 2-1-1-0
Hazare 2-0-3-0 (1nb)
