India, Dec. 30 -- Skipper Shardul Thakur ticked all the boxes, right from winning the toss to blowing the Chhattisgarh top order with a match-winning four-wicket burst, as Mumbai cruised to a nine-wicket victory to complete a group stage hat-trick in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Monday. At the Jaipuria Vidyalaya ground, Shardul won the toss and used the early morning nip to good effect to reduce Chhattisgarh to 10 for 4 inside the first five overs.

Chhattisgarh never recovered from the blow and were skittled out for 142 in 38.1 overs. While Shardul wreaked havoc in first half an hour, it was left-arm spinner Shams Mulani (5/31) who demolished the latter half of the Chhattisgarh batting by bowling quick and stump-to-stump line. The last six...