Mumbai off-spinner Ramesh Powar came up with a brilliant display of spin bowling to claim seven wickets for 55 runs and skittle out Bengal for 239 on the third day of the four-day Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'A' match in Kolkata on Monday.

For the hosts, opener Arindam Das struck a valiant 55.

S Sanyal (59) and S Lahiri (53) tried to stage a late fightback but the other batsmen contributed virtually nothing in the face of Powar's superb off-spin.

The visitors enforced the follow-on and at the close of play, Bengal were 14 for no loss.

Mumbai (1st innings):
V Mane run out (Gavaskar) 33
W Jaffer c Haldipur b Lahiri 162
V Indulkar c Dasgupta b Bose 69
A Muzumdar c Dasgupta b Bose 4
N Shetty c Haldipur b Gavaskar 108
S Bahutule c Dasgupta b Lodhgar 14
A Agarkar c Kundu b Lodhgar 45
R Powar not out 52
V Samant not out 35

Extras: (b 2, lb 9, w 3, nb 16) 30

Total: (7 wickets dec, 165 overs, 678 mins) 552

Did not bat: N Kulkarni, S Shinde.

Fall of wickets: 1-83, 2-266, 3-276, 4-292, 5-323, 6-425, 7-481.

Bowling: Bose 38-6-120-2 (3nb, 1w), Sanyal 20-7-50-0, Shukla 3-0-9-0, Lodhgar 41-7-169-2 (13nb), Kundu 24-4-72-0, Lahiri 27-6-74-1, Gavaskar 12-1-47-1 (2w).

Bengal (1st innings):
Arindam Das c Mane b Powar 55
N Haldipur c Jaffer b Shinde 7
D Dasgupta c Indulkar b Powar 22
R Gavaskar lbw Powar 0
A Majumder c Muzumdar b Powar 4
L Shukla c Shetty b Powar 0
S Sanyal c Indulkar b Agarkar 59
R Kundu c Samant b Agarkar 2
S Lahiri not out 53
M Lodhgar c Mane b Powar 20
R Bose lbw Powar 0.

Extras: (lb 3, nb 14) 17

Total: (all out, 96.2 overs, 369 mins) 239

Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-80, 3-82, 4-98, 5-98, 6-101, 7-110, 8-188, 9-231.

Bowling: Agarkar 18-4-53-2 (5nb), Bahutule 24-5-55-0, Shinde 12-5-36-1, Powar 22.2-3-55-7 (8nb), Kulkarni 18-7-33-0, Shetty 2-0-4-0 (1nb).

Bengal (2nd innings):
Arindam Das not out 6
N Haldipur not out 5

Extras: (nb 3) 3

Total: (0 wickets, 9 overs) 14

Bowling: Agarkar 2-1-2-0 (2nb), Shinde 2-0-2-0, Powar 3-1-5-0, Bahutule 2-0-5-0 (1nb).