Pacer Murtuza Hussain scalped four wickets as Mumbai reduced Himachal Pradesh to 180 for seven on the second day of the Elite group Ranji Trophy match in Dharamsala on Tuesday.
Replying to Mumbai's first innings score of 370, Hussain's four-wicket burst wrecked the Himachal line-up before Paras Dogra and Manvinder Bisla put up some fight.
While Paras was run out after scoring 42 runs, Bisla was caught behind off I Abdulla's bowling before stumps were drawn 12 overs early due to poor light.
Sarandeep Singh (8) and V Bhatia (4) were holding fort for the hosts at stumps.
Himachal made a steady start with M Gupta (29) and H Dogra (38) putting on 56 runs for the opening wicket before the latter was caught behind off Hussain's bowling.
Hussain then took three more wickets to wreck the Himachal line-up which was reeling at 78 for four before Paras and Bisla rebuilt the innings.
But the duo could not get the locals out of trouble.
For Mumbai, the only disappointment of the day was Test discard Ajit Agarkar's failure to take any wicket.
Earlier, Mumbai scored 370 with captain Amol Muzumdar scoring 90 and Vinayak Samant making 60.
Scorecard:
Mumbai (1st innings, overnight 324/9):
S Kukreja lbw b Malik 1
A Rahane lbw b S Singh 37
V Indulkar b Thakur 37
A Muzumdar lbw b Thakur 90
R Sharma c Bisla b Thakur 13
A Nayar c Malik b S Singh 21
A Agarkar lbw b Thakur 27
R Powar c Mannu b Bhatia 9
V Samant not out 60
I Abdulla run out (S Singh) 32
M Hussain b Malik 16
Extras: (b 12, lb 10, w 3, nb 2) 27
Total: (all out in 106.4 overs) 370
Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-82, 3-82, 4-113, 5-178, 6-241, 7-254, 8-258, 9-313, 10-370
Bowling: A Thakur 35-10-116-4, V Malik 22.4-7-54-2, P Dogra 2-1-12-0, V Bhatia 22-4-74-1, S Singh 23-3-79-2, S Sharma 2-0-13-0
Himachal Pradesh (1st innings):
M Gupta lbw b Hussain 29
H Dogra c Samant b Hussain 38
S Singh c Kukreja b Hussain 0
S Sharma c Samant b Hussain 6
P Dogra run out (Indulkar) 42
M Bisla c Samant b Abdulla 37
A Mannu c Muzumdar b Powar 0
S Singh not out 8
V Bhatia not out 4
Extras: (b 8, lb 6, nb 2) 16
Total: (for seven wickets in 59 overs) 180
Fall of wickets: 1-56, 2-67, 3-70, 4-78, 5-156, 6-161, 7-164
Bowling: A Agarkar 10-2-52-0, M Hussain 14-1-37-4, A Nayar 11-1-35-0, I Abdulla 11-4-16-1, R Powar 13-3-26-1
