A well deserved century by A Mannu helped Himachal score 430 in their second innings as their four day Ranji Trophy Super League Group A match against Mumbai [ Images ] ended in a draw in Dharamsala on Thursday.

With this draw, defending champions Mumbai gained three points while hosts Himachal picked up a single point. Mumbai are now third on the point table behind Saurashtra and Delhi [ Images ] with 18 points from their six mathes.

Himachal, with five points, are languishing at second from bottom.

Resuming at their overnight score of 236 for five, Himachal put up a spirited performance as A Mannu (103) led the lower-order fightback. He was ably supported by Sarandeep Singh as the duo put up 91 for the seventh wicket.

After Mannu was dismissed by Nayar, A Thakur was joined by V Malik at the crease. The two tailenders frustuated the Mumbai bowlers for long periods before Malik was caught out off the bowling of S Kukreja, just two runs short of a well deserved century.

Mumbai, needing 275 to win, started their second innings on a disastrous note when opener Kukreja was dismissed with just five runs on the board.

A Rahane and V Indulkar then played out the remaining overs as Mumbai finished with 65 from 17 overs.

Scorecard:
Mumbai (1st innings): 370
Himachal Pradesh [ Images ] (1st innings): 214
Himachal Pradesh (2nd innings, overnight 236/5):
M Gupta lbw b Abdulla 53
H Dogra c & b Powar 47
S Singh b Powar 0
S Sharma lbw b Abdulla 8
P Dogra b Hussain 51
M Bisla lbw b Hussain 19
A Mannu b Nayar 103
S Singh lbw b Nayar 26
Bhatia c Samant b Nayar 0
A Thakur not out 46
V Malik c sub b Kukreja 48
Extras: (b 8, lb 9, w 6, nb 6) 29
Total: (all out in 164.2 overs) 430

Fall of wickets: 1-76, 2-78, 3-107, 4-126, 5-155, 6-239, 7-330, 8-330, 9-351, 10-430

Bowling: A Agarkar 5.2-1-12-0, M Hussain 25.4-3-93-2, A Nayar 43-11-79-3, R Powar 41-8-105-2, I Abdulla 38-18-81-2, R Sharma 6-0-24-0, A Muzumdar 5-1-19-0, S Kukreja 0.2-0-0-1

Mumbai (2nd innings):
S Kukreja c P Dogra b Malik 1
A Rahane not out 18
V Indulkar not out 39
Extras: (b 4, lb 1, nb 2) 7
Total: (for 1 wicket in 17 overs) 65

Fall of wickets: 1-5

Bowling: A Thakur 7-2-19-0, V Malik 5-2-11-1, M Bisla 2-0-12-0, M Gupta 1-0-5-0, H Dogra 1-0-9-0, S Sharma 1-0-3-0