Mumbai inflicted a nine-wicket thrashing on Madhya Pradesh in their third T20 Mushtaq Ali Trophy match at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday. The hosts continued their dominance in the event and won with 25 balls to spare. Mumbai’s opening pair of Jay Bista (68 runs off 38 balls) and Aditya Tare (74 not out off 48) were the chief architects of Mumbai’s convincing win in a 111-run opening stand in just 70 balls.

While chasing MP’s score of 159-5, Bista, who scored a fifty against Mizoram in the tournament opener, played a variety of strokes; the pick of the shots being a pull off pacer Gaurav Yadav and a clean hit over midwicket off Saransh Jain which resulted in back-to-back-sixes in the eighth and ninth overs respectively. The right-hander reached his 51 off 27 balls.