[1]Ankeet Chavan (4/61) came good for Mumbai in his third match of the season to restrict Bengal to 201 and give the hosts a crucial first innings lead of 96 runs. The left arm slow bowler exploited the turn and bounce from the wicket to rattle the visitors after Mumbai made 297 in their first innings.
The hosts were 6/0 in their second essay at stumps on day three of their Group A Ranji trophy match here at Brabourne stadium.
Opener Arindam Das carried his bat for the visitors but he remained stranded on 98 (191b, 16x4). Arindam erected 72 runs stand for the third wicket with skipper Manoj Tiwary (39, 64b, 5x4, 1x6) after the visitors were reduced to 20/2 in the ninth over.
Tiwary looked edgy at the crease during his 101 minutes stay at the crease. He got many reprieves before he fell to Chavan while trying to play an uppish drive to Aavishkar Salvi at midoff. Tiwary's thick edge on 12 flew over the slips off Dhawal Kulkarni and then got an inner-edge of the same bowler which narrowly missed the stumps.
The hosts introduced spin in the 27th over in the form of Chavan and things started happening for them.
Tiwary drove uppishly towards Sharma but it fell just short.
He edged the next ball to slip and Wasim Jaffer failed to catch it. Tiwary then hit a six and four to put pressure on Chavan but the Mumbai bowler came back strongly to dismiss him in his third over.
Ramesh Powar struck in his first over by dismissing Wriddhiman Saha (0) but the third umpire confirmed it was a no ball. Saha lasted just one more ball as Kaustubh Pawar held him at short leg.
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