In fact, once these two departed, the innings lasted just 57 runs during which six wickets fell.

Off-spinner Kashinath Khadkikar (5-80) was once again Mumbai's nemisis and ended up with a match-haul of 11-122. Left-arm spinner Sayeed Khot, cleaned up the tail to end up with three wickets for 60.

Maharashtra, who needed 218 runs for an outright victory off 40 overs, were content in gaining batting practice asthey ended the day at 88-2. The visitors thus garnered five points from the encounter while Mumbai had to settle for three which could well have been more had they not let the opposition of the hook.

Scoreboard

Mumbai (1st innings): 176

Maharashtra (1st innings): 195

Mumbai (2nd innings; overnight 45-2): Vinayak Mane c Dhawale b Kulkarni 10, Kamran Chowdhary lbw b Khadkikar 23, Sushant Manjrekar c Dhawale b Khadkikar 96, Shakti Prasad c Kumbhare b Khadkikar 13, Sangram Bagul c&b Khadkikar 51, Onkar Khanvilkar c Shinde b Khot 1, Sammy Salaria st Dhawale b Khot 12, Rohan Ganpule c Laghate b Khot 3, Santosh Chafe run out 6, Prathmesh Athavale c Shinde b Khadkikar 10, Gaurang Joglekar not out 1 ; Extras: (3b, 3lb, 5nb) 11. Total: (all out in 63.5 overs) 237.

Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-45, 3-84, 4-182, 5-191, 6-215, 7-219, 8-221, 9-230

Bowling: Charudutta Kulkarni 10-3-28-1, Narendra Jadhav 7-1-19-0 (1nb), Kashinath Khadkikar 24.5-5-80-5, Hrishikesh Shinde 4-0-29-0 (4nb),Sayeed Khot 13-1-60-3, Kapil Laghate 5-0-15-0.

Maharashtra (2nd innings): Amit Kumbhare not out 33, Virag Awate c Khanvilkar b Prasad 24, Ranjeet Kamtekar b Prasad 16, Chetan Bhuimbar not out 14; Extras: (1lb) 1. Total: (for two wickets in 40 overs) 88.

Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-57.

Bowling: Gaurang Joglekar 2-0-13-0, Prathmesh Athavale 4-1-4-0, Shakti Prasad 14-8-19-2, Rohan Ganpule 5-0-8-0, Onkar Khanvilkar 7-1-24-0, Sushant Manjrekar 8-3-19-0

Result: Match drawn

Points: Maharashtra 5, Mumbai 3.