Mumbai completed a comfortable nine-wicket win over a hapless Himachal Pradesh on Monday — a result that leaves captain Wasim Jaffer with a couple of uncomfortable decisions to ponder in the days to come.Mumbai’s win was their fifth in succession as they stormed into the last four, but rather than the match, the post-game press conference revolved around who would be dropped to make way for Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan, both of who are expected to step out for the clash against Saurashtra.“It will be a tough decision but we have to take it. We will see whom to drop,” Jaffer said. The team had faced a similar dilemma two seasons ago, when Amol Muzumdar was the skipper. Then, he had to ask Nilesh Kulkarni to sit the game out and, ironically, this time Muzumdar himself is most likely to get the axe. Rahil Shaikh is expected to make way for Zaheer. While Abhishek Nayar’s performance with the bat and ball has cemented his place, Muzumdar has only scored one century this year, in an inconsequential group game against Punjab. Agarkar finds formAnother of Mumbai’s seniors who had been searching for form found some of it on Monday. Ajit Agarkar, with a disappointing season so far, picked up his first five-wicket haul as Mumbai wrapped up Himachal in under an hour.Agarkar bowled an inspired spell of 5-1-28-3 in the morning. Resuming at 200 for 5, Himachal managed to add a quick 87 runs, but the continuous fall of wickets meant Mumbai were left with just 43 to chase for a win.That they got in a canter, with Vinayak Samant remaining unbeaten on 24 and Abhishek Nayar stepping in to wind up the proceedings after Ajinkya Rahane had fallen leg-before just before the end.
