Hosts Hyderabad defeated Mumbai by nine wickets to pick up four points in the Elite B Group Ranji Trophy cricket match on the final day in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
The hosts bundled Mumbai out for 115 and scored 354 in the first innings taking a massive 239 lead. The visitors were all out for 268 in the second essay, leaving an easy target of 30 runs for Hyderabad for an outright victory.
Hyderabad batsmen scored the required runs in 8.2 overs after losing opener D B Ravi Teja.
Hosts have eight points from four matches while 36-time champions Mumbai are yet to open their account this season.
Resuming at overnight score of 68 for 3, Mumbai batsmen were never in contention barring R Sharma who pooled up all his skills to delay the inevitable.
Sharma scripted a fine innings of 95 which came off 185 balls and included 11 hits to the fence.
An incoming delivery of Kaushik Reddy which kept low trapped him lbw and he returned to the pavilion with the score reading 197 for six.
Ramesh Powar (21) and Wilkin Mota (27) were the other batsmen to show some resistance.
For hosts, youngsters Absolem and Pragyan Ojha picked four wickets apiece.
Hyderabad fielding a new fast bowling combination of Reddy and debutant Arjun made a good impact on the young Mumbai team which has only Amol Muzumdar and Ramesh Powar in terms of experience.
Scorecard
Mumbai 1st innings: 115
Hyderabad 1st innings: 354
Mumbai 2nd innings
V Mane b Ojha 48
S Marathe lbw b Absolem 16
B Thakkar c & b Absolem 3
A Muzumdar lbw b Absolem 9
R Sharma lbw b Reddy 95
N Shetty st Khaleel b Ojha 10
R Powar c Absolem b Ojha 21
W Mota lbw b Reddy 27
N Kulkarni c Khaleel b Absolem 0
K Waingankar not out 19
S Hazare c Khaleel b Ojha 0
Extras (b 13, lb 2, w 5) 20
Total (all out; 122.1 overs; 489 mins) 268
Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-44, 3-62, 4-159, 5-189, 6-197, 7-227, 8-232, 9-251, 10-268
Bowling: Reddy 25 9 58 2, Arjun 17 6 24 0, Absolem 25 5 67 4, Ojha 46.1 18 78 4, Yadav 8 0 18 0, Ravi Teja 1 0 8 0
Hyderabad 2nd innings (target: 30 runs)
T Suman not out 18 28 31 0 2 58.06
D Ravi Teja run out (Shetty) 1 6 2 0 0 50.00
P Shashank Nag not out 14 21 17 2 1 82.35
Total (1 wicket; 8.2 overs; 28 mins) 33
Fall of wickets: 1-8
Bowling: Powar 4.2 0 20 0, Kulkarni 4 2 13 0
