Ranji Trophy 2021 22 Final / Madhya Pradesh comes close to creating history, Mumbai's dream will be broken

Ranji Trophy 2021-22 Final Madhya Pradesh vs Mumbai Day 4 stumps: In an attempt to clinch their maiden Ranji title, facing 41-time winners Mumbai in the final, Madhya Pradesh took a 162-run lead in the first innings on Saturday. Collected the trophy. In reply to Mumbai's 374, MP scored 536 runs in the first innings and by the end of the fourth day's play, Mumbai scored 113 runs for two wickets. The hero of the fourth day was Rajat Patidar, who became the third batsman for MP to score a century after scoring 122 off 219 balls. Patidar hit 20 fours in his innings. Before this, Yash Dubey (133) and Shubham Sharma (116) had also scored centuries in the first innings for Madhya Pradesh.

Mumbai, however, started the second innings quickly in an attempt to end MP's lead. Due to the injury of Yashasvi Jaiswal, wicketkeeper Hardik Tamore came out to bat along with Prithvi Shaw. Mumbai added 61 runs in the first ten overs, but Kumar Karthikeya bowled Tamore on the third ball of the 11th over. Tamore made 25 runs off 32 balls and hit two fours and a six.

Armaan Jaffer, who came to the crease after Tamore's dismissal, tried to maintain the pace of the innings with skipper Shaw, but the Madhya Pradesh bowlers continued to bowl outside the off-stump and kept the runs under control. Ultimately, Shaw's patience was broken and in the 16th over he bowled the ball on the tenth stump by Gaurav Yadav into the hands of Dube standing on point.

After the dismissal of Shaw (52 balls 44 runs), Suved Parker came to the crease who has scored nine runs till the end of the day's play while Jaffer is playing on 30 runs. Mumbai is still behind by 49 runs in the match. If the match ends in a draw, Madhya Pradesh will win their first Ranji Trophy on the basis of scoring more runs in the first innings.

Madhya Pradesh still has the lead on first innings basis, Madhya Pradesh will be able to win their maiden title if some major upsets don't happen on the fifth day. The team of Madhya Pradesh last reached the Ranji final in 1998-99 but then they had to face defeat against Karnataka.

Mumbai captain Prithvi Shaw returned to the pavilion after scoring 44 off 52 balls in the second innings. He hit 3 fours and 2 sixes in his innings. Mumbai's team is still 50 runs behind Madhya Pradesh's first innings lead.

Mumbai have made a strong start in their second innings. The team has scored 61 runs in the first 10 overs. However, in the 11th over, the team has suffered a major setback in the form of Hardik. He returned to the pavilion after scoring 63 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal, who scored a fifty in the first innings, did not come for the opening.