Chhatisgarh's Ayush Pandey produced a brilliant hundred in the second innings to thwart Mumbai's hopes of an outright victory in their Ranji Trophy Elite Group D match at the Bandra-Kurla Complex Mumbai Cricket Association (BKC-MCA) Ground on Tuesday.

After putting on 416 in their first innings, Mumbai skittled out the visitors for 217 and then asked them to follow on hoping for an outright victory, if not an innings win.

However, young Ayush had different ideas as he clinically went about disrupting Mumbai bowlers' plans with his strong defence and fluent strokeplay.

With 17 fours and a six, the 22-year-old tormented the home team bowlers and especially the spinners and more in the second session of the day.

Chhatisgarh scored 122 runs in the second session with at a run-rate of 4.28

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