Aditya Tare top-scored for Mumbai while Suryakumar Yadav got the team past 300, but the total didn't prove enough.
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It took a record chase to bring Mumbai down.
Mumbai went into their first Vijay Hazare Trophy Elite Group A game of the season against Chhattisgarh at the Alur Cricket Stadium III in Bengaluru on Saturday determined to put on a show.
They had lost the toss but that didn't affect their batsmen much even if the first wicket went a little too soon. But opener Aditya Tare, who played for Eagle Thane Strikers in T20 Mumbai earlier this season, teamed up with teenager Yashasvi Jaiswal to put on 90 runs for the second wicket to lay the foundation of the innings.
It was a debut List A match for young Jaiswal, who has been in the North Mumbai Panthers squad in T20 Mumbai for two seasons now, with the 17-year-old departing for a well-compiled 44.
In came captain Shreyas Iyer next who put on 78 runs for the third wicket with Tare in just 64 balls as the duo looked to up the run rate before the wicket-keeping batsman got out for 90 in 107 balls, helped by 5 fours and 2 sixes.
Iyer left after a brisk 46-ball 50 with 4 boundaries and a maximum at the end of the 45th over with the score at 238/4.
With the hard-hitting Suryakumar Yadav at the crease in the last five overs meant that 79 runs were plundered in the period.
Yadav, the title-winning captain in the inaugural T20 Mumbai season, hammered 81 from just 31 balls, aided by 8 fours and 6 sixes and at a stunning strike rate of 261.29, before getting out on the last ball of the innings as Mumbai ended with 317/5 in their 50 overs.
Chhattisgarh, however, chased the total down with five wickets and a ball to spare led by Amandeep Khare's unbeaten century. Shashank Singh, a Triumph Knights Mumbai North East all-rounder from the first season of T20 Mumbai, also impressed on the day with a 43-ball 40 and his 2/54 from his quota of 10 overs earlier.
Shams Mulani, who represented Aakash Tigers Mumbai Western Suburbs in T20 Mumbai this year, was the pick of the bowlers for Mumbai with 3/38 in his 10 overs.
The previous highest chase against Mumbai in List A cricket was 302 by Rajasthan in 2015.
