{"id":455349,"date":"2026-02-03T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455349\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:44:10","slug":"thakur-jaiswal-back-for-mumbais-ranji-quarter-final-against-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455349\/","title":{"rendered":"Thakur, Jaiswal back for Mumbai&#8217;s Ranji quarter-final against Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/shardul-thakur-475281\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shardul Thakur<\/a> will be back as captain and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/yashasvi-jaiswal-1151278\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yashasvi Jaiswal<\/a> as opener for Mumbai&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/ranji-trophy-2025-26-1492381\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ranji Trophy<\/a> quarter-final against Karnataka starting February 6.<\/p>\n<p>The pair had not played the second half of the Ranji Trophy, which restarted after the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy. Thakur captained Mumbai in the October-November leg while Jaiswal was playing the multi-format series against South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/cricket\/story\/_\/id\/47767693\/ranji-trophy-mumbai-players-use-face-masks-construction-pollution\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1511902_1296x1296.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/cricket\/story\/_\/id\/47733147\/ranji-trophy-devdutt-padikkal-replaces-mayank-agarwal-karnataka-captain\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1457740_1296x1296.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai qualified into the quarter-finals comfortably with 33 points, the highest in Group D and the second-highest among all teams. They won four, drew three and lost none. They were being led by Siddhesh Lad, who has scored five centuries this season, in Thakur&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai, as group toppers, have home advantage at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai. Karnataka, their opponents, qualified as runner-up of Group B on the last day of the league stage. They are being led by an in-form Devdutt Padikkal.<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai are chasing a 43rd Ranji Trophy title, having last won in 2023-24. Karnataka, the competition&#8217;s second-most successful team, are looking for a ninth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shardul Thakur will be back as captain and Yashasvi Jaiswal as opener for Mumbai&#8217;s Ranji Trophy quarter-final against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-455349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}