It`s almost half-a-decade since Mumbai played their last Ranji Trophy knockout game, losing to Karnataka by an innings and 20 runs at Nagpur in 2017-18. So, as the Prithvi Shaw-led outfit prepare to face Uttarakhand at Alur, near Bangalore, in the quarter-final beginning today, it is understandable why the chief architect of Mumbai’s successful run this season—left-arm spinner Shams Mulani—has warned his teammates not to let complacency seep in across the next five days.

“They [Uttarakhand] have three-four professional players and a few others, who have been doing well too. That’s the reason they have won matches and progressed this far. We cannot afford to be complacent against them,” Mulani, who bagged 29 wickets and scored 132 runs in the previous three games, told mid-day from Alur on Saturday.