Vidarbha skipper Akshay Wadkar had to employ eight bowlers to dismiss Ajinkya Rahane’s Mumbai on Day Three of their Ranji Trophy final at the Wankhede Stadium on Tuesday. If this doesn’t indicate Vidarbha’s degree of difficulty, despondency and desperation, nothing else will.

The hosts continued their supremacy by amassing 418 in the second innings to set the visitors a near-impossible 538 -run victory target. They were 10 without loss at stumps.