Mumbai beat Maharashtra by nine wickets here. Odisha are almost at the bottom of the Group A table but they’re pretty optimistic about taking on the likes of Ajinkya Rahane, Iyer and Shardul Thakur.

Their captain says emphatically performing against Mumbai in Mumbai will definitely help garner a lot of eyeballs. Vishal Dikshit brings this snippet:

“Actually if you see, last year in Vijay Hazare at Bangalore, we beat Mumbai,” Odisha captain Govinda Poddar said on Tuesday. “And definitely in Ranji Trophy, in red-ball cricket, Mumbai is a very good side. But given a chance, the team which plays [better] on that day will definitely win the match.

“And for us, Odisha, if we perform here, then definitely our players are going to get more limelight throughout India. Because all the big media coverage, they cover Mumbai cricket. It’s a very good opportunity for us to implement what we have, what we have prepared from last year. So we’ll gradually implement our plans and definitely try to perform well.”