Cooch-Behar encounter evenly poised

The hosts innings was revived by a 51-run fourth wicket partnership between opener Abhijit Shetye (47) and Abhishek Jaywant (36) after the early fall of three wickets Shetye’s departure brought in Kunal More, who added 35 runs for the fifth wicket with Jaywant. However, the stand was broken by Maharashtra captain Aphale, who bowled Jaywant. More (18) too followed and it was left to Sriram Kannan (1) and Sushant Manjrekar (6) to hold fort at close.

SCOREBOARD

MAHARASHTRA (1st innings) overnight 226-7: Sachin Aradhye b Z Khan 0, Dhiraj Jadhav b Kannan 21, Vivek Deshmukh lbw b More 69, Rizwan Anwar b ZKhan 20, Kaushik Aphale c Shetye b Kanan 34, Vedant Patwardhan c Mankar b Jaywant 17, Sagar Bhargude run out 47, Kapil Lagate run out 5, Mahendra Khude not out 6, Vinay Singh run ot 1, Vijay Shetty b Jaywant 0. Extras (2b, 12lb, 2w, 8nb) 24. Total (in 101.4 overs) 244

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-49, 3-74, 4-159, 5-159, 6-211, 7-226, 8-239, 9-240 (Singh), 10- 244

Bowling: Z Khan 28-11-45-2, Kannan 17-3-48-2, Koudhare 7-2-20-0, Jaywant 25.4-5-56-2, Kulkarni 6-0-20-0, More 17-5-37-1, Pushkaraj 1-0-4-0

MUMBAI (1st innings): Tej Mankar c Patwardhan b Shetty 12, Abhijit Shetye c Aphale b Bhargude 47, Salil Vaidya c Yadav b Aradhye 15, Pushkaraj Jhadav c Khude b Shetty 10, Abhishek Jaywant b Aphale 36, Kunal More lbw b Vinay Singh 18, Sriram Kannan batting 1, Sushant Manjrekar batting 6. Extras (6b, 2lb, 2w, 4nb) 14. Total (for loss of six wickets) 159

Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-33, 3-66, 4-117, 5-152, 6-152

Bowling: V Singh 11-2-31-2, Khude 2-0-9-0, Aradhye 20-4-40-1, Patwardhan 8-3-10-0, Shetty 14-2-21-1, Bhargude 12-3-25-1, Deshmukh 5-1-9-0, Aphale 5-3-6-1