One can easily agree with Agarkar, especially after the way the batsmen have batted without giving any chance to their rivals for last two days.

More complaints

Even Hyderabad pacer MP Arjun couldn’t stop complaining about the pitch, despite taking four wickets. “You need to put more force into your deliveries here otherwise the ball won’t reach the wicketkeeper,” he said. But with opener T Suman batting on 40 and Anoop Pai unbeaten on 35, the visitors are hoping to put up a stiff challenge.

Earlier, overnight batsman Wasim Jaffer and Ajinkya Rahane (137) walked out to continue from their score of 366, but the latter failed to add more runs to his kitty. The new ball did the trick for the visitors as Ashwin Yadav got the breakthrough, Rahane giving a simple catch to wicketkeeper Abhinav Kumar.

Jaffer, who was batting on 204 overnight, added 52 runs to his innings. Amol Muzumdar (15) and India middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma (44) looked in fine touch but failed to take advantage of the batting track while Ramesh Powar (2) couldn’t last long either.

Agarkar and veteran Sairaj Bahutule (40 not out) guided Mumbai comfortably towards the 600-mark, which prompted Mumbai skipper Jaffer to declare the innings. For Hyderabad, 23-year-old MP Arjun was the wrecker-in-chief as he finished his spell with figures of 27-2-99-4.