Marauding Mumbai banished last week’s shocking defeat to Uttar Pradesh to a mere footnote as they returned to winning ways in Ranji Trophy’s Elite Group B in style on Sunday. It’s another matter that Bengal, asked to follow-on after being dismissed for 199 on Saturday in reply to the visitors’ 412, seemed to have lost all appetite for a fightback.

On an Eden Gardens wicket that had lost venom and eased into an inviting one for batsmen, the hosts folded up for 209 to hand Mumbai victory by an innings and four runs. It all but sealed a berth in the quarter-finals for the 41-time champions.