On Wednesday, Mumbai's young batsman Sarfaraz Khan's scored triple century against Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy Elite Group-B match. On this basis, Mumbai achieves three points. The Uttar Pradesh captain declared the first innings at 625 runs for 8 wickets. In response, Mumbai declared the innings by scoring 688 runs for 7 wickets on the fourth day of the match. The match was terminated as soon as Mumbai's innings was declared, as there were not many overs left to advance the match. This was the reason that Mumbai's team got 3 out of 4 points. The journey of the Mumbai team which has won Ranji Trophy more than 40 times has been very bad this season.
Sarfaraz Khan scored unbeaten 301 runs with 30 fours and eight sixes in 391 balls. Mumbai started the day at 353 for five wickets, while Sarfaraz was at 132 runs and Aditya Tare was playing for nine runs. Although Tare missed out on scoring a century, but apart from playing an innings of 97, he shared a 179-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Sarfaraz to take the team to a strong position. Tare hit 14 fours in a 144-ball inning.
After the break-up of this partnership, Man of the Match Sarfaraz got good support from Shams Mulani (65). Both added 150 runs for the seventh wicket to ensure the team's first-innings lead. Ankit Rajput took the most three wickets for Uttar Pradesh. Muhammad Saif got two wickets while Wajid Ali and RK Singh got one wicket each. After this match, Mumbai has 12 points in five matches and Uttar Pradesh has 14 points in six matches.
