As Shrikant Mundhe moved close to the nineties, Kedar Jadhav quickly ran towards the ropes where a few of his team-mates had already taken position. Those who were in the dressing room were summoned and even the support-staff rushed to that spot beyond the boundary before their all-rounder reached his second ton in first-class cricket.

Back in the square, Maharashtra had just lost their number ten, Domnic Joseph, and Mundhe, who was batting on 81, had to negotiate those tricky moments with last man Samad Fallah for company. Maharashtra was already in a decent position — they had taken the first-innings lead and avoided a major collapse in the second innings –— and it was now about individual performance.

It had been a blistering innings from Mundhe; he didn’t score a single after 56. There were 21 dot balls in the next 30 deliveries, the rest were in fours and sixes. He had charged Delhi’s left-arm spinner Varun Sood for a six and four and slammed a couple more fours in Sood’s next over.

Gautam Gambhir tried another young left-arm spinner Manan Sharma. Mundhe charged him with two sixes and a four to the straight boundary to reach 97. Meanwhile, Fallah played out part-timer Mithun Manhas without any major fuss and focus was once again on Maharashtra’s all-rounder.

Parvinder Awana, Delhi’s best bowler in the game, replaced the spinners but Mundhe biffed a full ball to the straight boundary to bring up his first ton of the season.

Awana eventually got him caught in the next over but Mundhe’s blitz, that had 12 fours and five sixes, was enough for Maharashtra to ensure they took three points against Delhi at the Ranji Trophy game at MCA ground.

Earlier in the day, Delhi’s bowlers failed to grab wickets as overnight batsman Chirag Khurana and Rahul Tripathi managed to play out the crucial first hour.

Khurana, who resumed on 63, went on to score 80 whereas Tripathi (40 runs overnight) slammed 63 runs.

Maharashtra, who had a 23-run lead, were all out for 368 runs and set Delhi a tough target of 382 runs to achieve in nearly two sessions.

Both teams decided to call off play before the start of the mandatory overs.

Brief scores: Maharashtra 330 & 368 (C Khurana 80,R Tripathi 66, S Mundhe 105; P Awana 4/68) drew with Delhi 307 & 78 for 3.