Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015-16 Group A match between Hyderabad and Mumbai at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Friday. Mumbai is currently third in the points table, despite suffering a five-wicket defeat at the hands of Rajasthan in their previous encounter at the Gymkhana Ground in Hyderabad on Thursday. Hyderabad, on the other hand, have struggled for the most part so far in the tournament, losing four out of the five games that they have played so far, including a three-wicket defeat to Tamil Nadu in their previous game. Their only win in the tournament so far has come against the lowly Assam, beating them by 72 runs.
Live Cricket Score: Hyderabad 43/2 | Overs 13 | BATSMEN: Hanuma Vihari 8(12), Tanmay Agarwal 2(4): Winning the toss, Hyderabad chose to bat first. Although the openers were off to a decent start, their wickets falling in quick succession. Shardul who bagged a 5-wicket haul in the previous match drew first blood, removing Hyderabad’s opening batsman Danny Derek Prince on the last delivery of the 10th over. The second wicket went to Rohan Raje, leaving Hyderad at 38 for 2. OUT! Danny Derek Prince c Aditya Tare b Shardul 13(34) OUT! Sumanth Kolla c Aditya Tare b Rohan Raje 16(28)
Mumbai, who have put up dominant performances in the ongoing Ranji Trophy 2015-16 so far, have won three and lost two games in their run in the 50-over tournament so far. They started their campaign with a five-wicket win over Punjab, before suffering their first loss to Tamil Nadu by 26 runs. Their next couple of games, against Assam and Services respectively, were easy wins by 96 runs and six wickets respectively.
Squads:
Mumbai: Aditya Tare (c/wk), Jay Bista, Akhil Herwadkar, Iqbal Abdulla, Shreyas Iyer, Dhawal Kulkarni, Siddhesh Lad, Abhishek Nayar, Rohan Raje, Abhishek Raut, Sufiyan Shaikh, Shashank Singh, Shardul Thakur, Sagar Trivedi, Suryakumar Yadav.
Hyderabad: Hanuma Vihari (c), Vishal Sharma, Himalay Agarwal, Tanmay Agarwal, M Hasan, Jaweed Ali, Chama Milind, Mohammed Siraj, Pagadala Naidu, Ravi Kiran, Akshath Reddy, Bavanaka Sandeep, Tirumalasetti Suman, Kolla Sumanth (wk), Yathin Reddy.