Rajkot, 24 January, 2013

The cricket team of Saurashtra will clash with Mumbai in final match of Ranji trauphy tournamnt this Saturday. It should be mentioned here that Saurashtra team has secured its place in the final match of this tournament after a gap of 75 years.

According to captain Jaydev Shah(the son of Niranjan Shah), the players of his team are not under any pressure and they will try their best to defeat Mumbai in final match.

Saurashtra won semifinal match against Punjab with the magic of off-spinner and man of the match Vishal Joshi of Jamnagar. According to Joshi, he is ready to perform in same way against Mumbai in final match too.

Young leg-spinner and India’s second top wicket taker in under-25 category, Rajkot’s Dharmendrasinh Jadeja said that the team is working hard to ensure victory.

Team’s experienced player Sitanshu Kotak said that the team was at the bottom before ten years, but now it is on the top thanks to efforts of Niranjan Shah who has always believed that the players should get a chance.

Saurashtra players will clash with a Mumbai team that has experienced players like Sachin Tendulkar, Ajit Agarkar, Wasim Jaffer and Abhishek Nayar among others. That too at home ground of Mumbai team – Wankhede stadium.

Saurashtrat team has reached Mumbai and the players are involved in net practice.

Saurashtra team:

Jaydev Shah (c) Balkrishna Jadeja
Aarpit Vasavada Bhushan Chauhan
Nayan Doshi Sheldon Jackson
Ravindra Jadeja Sagar Jogiyani (wk)
Shitanshu Kotak Kamlesh Makvana
Sandip Maniar Jayesh Odedra
Chirag Pathak Cheteshwar Pujara
Saurya Sanandiya Jaydev Unadkat

Mumbai team

Ajit Agarkar (c) Ankeet Chavan
Akhil Herwadkar Iqbal Abdulla
Zaheer Khan Dhawal Kulkarni
Abhishek Nayar Kaustubh Pawar
Ramesh Powar Ajinkya Rahane
Rohit Sharma Aditya Tare (wk)
Sachin Tendulkar

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