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Mumbai has made it to the final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024 by defeating Baroda by six wickets in the semi-final match played at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Thursday due to the strong innings of Ajinkya Rahane.
Batting first, Baroda scored 158 runs for seven wickets in 20 overs, in reply Mumbai won the match by scoring 164 runs for four wickets in 17.2 overs.
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Rahane missed century
Rahane played an important role in Mumbai's victory, scoring 98 runs in 56 balls with the help of 11 fours and five sixes. He performed brilliantly for the second consecutive match. Earlier, he had also scored a half-century in the quarter-finals and contributed significantly to the team's victory. Rahane was slowly moving towards a century, but he was out on the ball of Abhimanyu Singh and missed out on scoring a century.
Prithvi Shaw and Ajinkya Rahane came to open for Mumbai. Shaw was out after scoring 8 runs. But the Baroda team proved to be a complete failure in stopping Rahane.
Apart from Rahane, captain Shreyas Iyer scored 46 runs in 30 balls with the help of four fours and three sixes.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy | Mumbai vs Baroda 1st Semifinal Report
In the first semi-final match of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024, Mumbai won the toss and decided to bowl first. None of the Baroda batsmen who came to bat first could score 40 runs.
Hardik Pandya was out after scoring only 5 runs. Shashwat Rawat scored 30 runs in 29 balls, captain Krunal Pandya scored 36 runs in 24 balls and Shivalik Sharma scored 36 runs in 24 balls. Baroda could score only 158 runs after losing 7 wickets in 20 overs.
In reply, Mumbai did not have a good start. After the dismissal of Prithvi Shaw, there was a partnership of 88 runs on 56 balls between Ajinkya Rahane and Shreyas Iyer. Shreyas was out after scoring 46 runs in 30 balls.
After this, there was a partnership of 40 runs in 27 balls between Rahane and Suryakumar Yadav, in which Suryakumar scored only one run.
Mumbai scored 164 runs by losing 4 wickets in 17.2 overs and won the match by 6 wickets and secured their place in the final. The player of the match of this match was Ajinkya Rahane.