Dhumal, Dabholkar spin Mumbai to third outright win

Slow left-arm orthodox bowlers Aditya Dhumal and Vishal Dabholar wrecked the opposition by claiming nine wickets between them to help Mumbai pull off a resounding 121 runs victory against Uttar Pradesh in a Ranji trophy match here today.
With this outright victory, Mumbai who are in Group A, garnered six points, taking their tally to 25 points, who are now proudly perched at the top of the point stable.
Mumbai pulled off their third outright victory of the season and drawing two in five matches they have played so far.
Uttar Pradesh are placed ninth after six matches, placed right at the bottom of the table, with four points after having lost four and drawing two matches respectively.

Mumbai had scored 233 all out in first innings and took a paltry eight runs lead over Uttar Pradesh after bowling the rivals all out for 225.
Batting for the second time, Mumbai scored 286 all out in the second innings, riding high on a brilliant 90 and late flourish by Suryakumar Yadav and Shardul.

Uttar Pradesh, set a 295-run target, were bundled out for 173 in 67.2 overs.
Uttar Pradesh batsmen could not find any answer to magical spells of Aditya and Vishal.
Dhumal, who had picked up two wickets in the first innings, bagged five wickets in the second innings after conceding 53 runs in 20.2 overs, whereas Dabholkar claimed four wickets for 43 runs in 21 overs.

Shardul Thakur was the other bowler who scalped the prize wicket of Tanmay Srivastava before the close of third day's play.
Resuming Day 4 at 43 for one, overnight batsmen - Shivam Chaudhary and Samarth Singh steadied the ship and strung a 81 runs partnership for the second wicket.
Choudhary, who scored 50 off 99 balls, became the first victim of Dhumal after he was stumped by Aditya Tare, when the score read 87 for two.
After the departure of Choudhary, no Uttar Pradesh batsmen made any contribution to make a match out of it, but succumbed to sublime spin bowling by Dhumal and Dabholkar. They ran through the rival's innings by picking up eight last wickets for 86 runs.

Except Samarth, who made 42 runs, no other batsmen crossed 20 runs.
Mumbai will take on Gujarat, beginning November 21 and Uttar Pradesh will play against Railways on November 29.