13 January,2009 01:29 PM IST | | A Correspondent
Zaheer Khan and Dhaval Kulkarni added valuable 44 runs together to help Mumbai post a relatively decent score in their first innings of the Ranji Trophy final against Uttar Pradesh today.
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Zaheer (33) and Kulkarni (11 not out) propped 37-time Ranji champions to finish for 402 just after lunch on Day Two in Hyderabad.
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UP's catching which was miserable on Day One, did not seem to improve any further today.
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Parvinder Singh dropped a sitter from Zaheer Khan at point. But Parvinder made no mistake when he got a second chance off R P Singh's next over. Zaheer tried to waft a good length ball on the off stump to over mid-on, but got a top edged that lobbed up straight to Parvinder at point.
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Earlier, Mumbai resumed their innings from the overnight score of 297 after losing six wickets in the first innings on Day One with Rohit Sharma batting on 113 and Ajit Agarkar on 21.
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Overnight centurion Sharma (141) added 28 more runs to his score before being foxed by left-arm slow Praveen Gupta.
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Gupta also scalped Ramesh Powar as Mumbai scoreline read 344-8 from 344-6. R P Singh got rid of Agarkar who departed after scoring a well-made 47.
