Replying to Haryana's first innings' 139, Delhi were all out for 299, thanks to Sehwag's stroke-filled century, punctuated by three sixes and 16 boundaries.

Lagging behind by 160 runs, Haryana began their second innings on a sour note losing Parinder Sharma and Nitin Goel to Robin Singh and Amit Bhandari, for 60. At end of play, Jatinder Singh on 19 and night watchman Pradip Jain on zero were at the crease.

Scoreboard

Haryana (1st innings): 139

Delhi (1st innings): Akash Chopra lbw P Thakur 17, Ashu Dani st Yadav b Sharma 52, V Dahiya c Parinder b Jain 0, Ajay Sharma c Shafiq b Jain 22, Manhas c Kaypee b Jain 26, A Malhotra c Jatinder b Jain 18, Virender Sehwag c Kaypee b Sharma 118, S Angurale c Kaypee b Jain 0, R Sanghvi b Jain 9, A Bhandari b Thakur 5, Robin Singh not out 6; Extras: (b4, lb6, nb14)26.

Total 299.

Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-36, 3-80, 4-114, 5-142, 6-155, 7-159, 8-199, 9-255.

Bowling: V Jain 25-2-75-3, Dhanraj 5-1-11-0, P Jain 26-8-87-3, P Thakur 24-6-69-2, Sonu Sharma 20.2-8-45-2.

Haryana (2nd innings): Parinder Sharma lbw Robin 12, Nitin Goel c Manhas b Bhandari 9, Jatinder Singh batting 19, P Jain batting 0; Extras: (b12, lb3, nb5) 20.

Total: (for 2 wickets) 60.

Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-49.

Bowling: Robin Singh 8-2-14-1, Bhandari 7-0-23-1, Akash Malhotra 2-0-4-0, V Sehwag 3-1-3-0.

MP on top

INDORE:A 165 by Devendra Bundela and his two half-century partnerships with Rajesh Chauhan and Narendra Hirwani each enabled Madhya Pradesh post 451 in their first innings against Vidarbha.

Scoreboard:

Madhya Pradesh (first innings) overnight 301 for seven: J P Yadav run out 10, H S Sodhi b Parteki 1, Amay Khurasia c S Aiyyer b Parteki 59, Prashant Dwivedi lbw Gandhi 13, Abbas Ali lbw Chandurkar 0, ChandrakantPandit c Chandurkar b Doshi 50, Raja Ali st Aiyyer b Rajput 75, Devendra Bundela c Sutane b Doshi 165, Rajesh Chauhan c Aiyyer b Chandurkar 15, Sanjay Pandey lbw Chandurkar 0, Narendra Hirwani not out 37; Extras (b17, lb8, nb1) 26.

Total: (all out in 131.1 overs) 451.

Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-19, 3-58, 4-61, 5-101, 6-161, 7-296, 8-362, 9-362.

Bowling: Trevor Gonzalves 19-4-64-0, Dilip Parteki 33-4-105-2, Yogesh Chandurkar 33-8-109-3, Pritam Gandhe 31-2-103-1, Manish Doshi 4.1-0-20-2, Lalchand Rajput 8-1-13-1, Ulhas Gandhi 3-0-12-0.

Vidarbha (first innings): Paresh Sutane (batting) 34, Sadashiv Aiyyer (batting) 6; Extras: (lb1, nb2) 3.

Total (for no loss in 23 overs) 43.

Bowling: H S Sodhi 9-2-12-0, Devendra Bundela 2-0-4-0, Sanjay Pandey 6-2-11-0, Narendra Hirwani 3-1-11-0, J P Yadav 2-1-3-0, Rajesh Chauhan 1-0-1-0.

Railways gain lead

JAIPUR: A 99-run fifth wicket stand between skipper Prahlad Rawat (68) and S Bhatia (48 batting)helped Railways gain a 191-run first innings lead against Rajasthan at close on the second day of the Central Zone match.

Scoreboard

Rajasthan (first innings): 85.

Railways (first innings, overnight 94 for 2): Sanjay Bangar c Khoda b Pal 68, Satendra Yadav c Jhalani b Shamsher 1, Abhay Sharma st Jhalani b Pal 44, Yere Goud lbw Kapoor 35, Prahlad Rawat c Gupta b Kapoor 68, S Bhatia not out 48, Devendra not out 0; Extras (b6, lb5, nb1) 12.

Total (for five wickets in 134 overs) 276.

Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-58, 3-135, 4-173, 5-272.

Bowling: P Krishna Kumar 14-4-34-0, Shamsher Singh 26-11-51-1, Aashish Kapoor 41-13-73-2, Devendra Pal Singh 27-10-37-2, M Aslam 21-6-56-0, Pankaj Gupta 2-0-3-0, Rahul Kanwat 3-0-11-0.