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Cuttack, Feb 20: Mumbai pace spearhead Shardul Thakur roared again as the 40-time Ranji champions trounced Delhi by 204 runs to enter the semifinals at the DRIEMS ground in Tangi Friday. Medium pacer Balwinder Sandhu (3/35) and Shardul shared six wickets among them to bundle out Delhi for 236 runs.
Chasing a mammoth 440 to win, Delhi resumed at their overnight score of 110 for four but an in batting line-up collapsed again. All-rounder Rajat Bhatia top-scored with 49, before being dismissed by man of the match Shardul, who spoiled Delhi with overall match figures of 8/113. But the day belonged to Balwinder who broke the Delhi middle-order. He took the important wicket of Virender Sehwag, clean bowling the former India batsman for 19.
Meanwhile, medium-pacer Wilkin Mota (2/55) and left arm spinner Harmeet Singh (2/55) also bagged two wickets each to make their presence felt.
Brief Scores: Mumbai: 156 and 450 beat Delhi: 166 and 236 (Rajat Bhatia 49; Shardul Thakur 3/59, Balwinder Sandhu 3/35) by 204 runs.
Other games
(At Indore): Karnataka 452 & 415/5 decl; Assam 185 & 338/4 (Gokul Sharma 127 n o, Arun Karthik 94, Pallav Kumar Das 71; Ravikumar Samarth 2/67). Match drawn Karnataka won by virtue of first innings lead.
(At Jaipur): Tamil Nadu 403 & 266; Vidarbha 259 & 142/8 (Ganesh Satish 59; Baba Aparajith 3/41). Match drawn. Tamil Nadu won by virtue of first innings lead.
