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Centuries from Rohilla, Chauhan helped Army beat Mumbai by eight wickets

Centuries from openers Shubham Rohilla and Ravi Chauhan and a 231-run opening partnership between the two helped Sena beat a strong Mumbai by eight wickets in a Group E match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Sunday. Army achieved the target of 265 runs in 45.3 overs to win. Mumbai, after being invited to bat first, scored 264 for nine on the back of young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal’s 104 off 122 balls with 13 fours.

Shams Mulani contributed 48 runs in 58 balls and captain Ajinkya Rahane 43 runs in 67 balls for the team. Mumbai lost the wickets of Prithvi Shaw (five) and Hardik Tamore (one run) in the first seven overs. Jaiswal then put on 105 runs for the third wicket with captain Rahane. He took the team out of difficult situations with a 47-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Mulani. Tanush Kotian’s aggressive innings of 26 runs in 16 balls in the last over could reach the team’s score to 264 runs. Chasing the target, left-handed batsman Rohilla and right-handed batsman Chauhan gave Army a dream start.

Rohilla was more aggressive during this period, hitting four sixes and 15 fours in his 119-ball innings. Chauhan hit 11 fours and a six in his 120-ball innings. This partnership was broken by Aman Khan dismissing Chauhan while Roston Dias ended Rohilla’s innings. After the dismissal of these two, Rahul Singh Gehlot (19 not out) and Amit Pachara (five not out) completed the formality of victory by achieving the target. In other group matches, Bengal beat Mizoram by nine wickets while Railways beat Puducherry by three wickets. Bengal chased down the target in just 6.2 overs after losing Mizoram’s innings for 57 runs. Puducherry scored 289 for nine on the back of Paras Dogra’s 102 runs but the Railways chased down the target in the last over on the back of 115 runs by opening batsman Shivam Choudhary.

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