The three-day warm-up match between Mumbai XI and New Zealand ended in a draw at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi. In the 15 player-per-side match (11 batting) both teams gave their players an opportunity to test and display their skills. New Zealand looking to acclimatise and make most of the warm-up shuffled their line-up in the second innings, giving their lower-order an opportunity to bat. Mumbai too gave their youngsters an opportunity to test their skills. Young Sufiyan Shaikh kept wickets while the captain fielded. After their batsmen dominated on the second day, Mumbai’s bowlers had a good outing on the final day of the game. After bowling nine bowlers in the first innings, the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy champions continued to proceed in the same vein. The part-timers and youngsters were given a chance to display their skills against a national team. Earlier, when Mumbai resumed their innings on the final morning, Parkishit Valsangakar replaced Aditya Tare in the middle to begin proceedings for the day. While the skipper retired on his overnight score of 53, Siddhesh Lad completed his century. The home team declared their innings with a 140-run lead once the No 7 batsman reached the three-figure mark having added 33 runs to the overnight total. Vishal Dabholkar then gave Mumbai their first breakthrough by dismissing Martin Guptill for a duck. While Luke Ronchi anchored the innings, the middle-order caved in to the Mumbai attack. After showing his skills with the bat, Lad returned to turn his arm over. Part-time off-spinner Lad had Mitchell Santner stumped by Shaikh as Mumbai continued to maintain an upper-hand. 64 runs later Doug Bracewell, who too was promoted up the order was trapped lbw by Tushar Deshpande. Hitting the deck hard the young pacer continued to test the New Zealand batsmen in search of wickets. In the following over, Vijay Gohil accounted for Henry Nicholls and a while later sent back Trent Boult to leave New Zealand on 138 for five. While wickets crumbled at one end, Ronchi became the first Kiwi batsmen to score a hundred in the match. However, seven runs after reaching the mark, he was stumped off Parkishit Valsangkar. With the team struggling on 162 for the loss of six wickets, Tom Latham joined BJ Watling in an effort to keep the side in the reckoning and took the team to tea at 187 for six. While Tare sat out the final session of the day, Lad led the team for the remaining duration. Watling was the first to return to the pavilion after tea. Valsangakar had batsman stumped seven runs short of a half-century. He was replaced in the middle by Neil Wagner. Halfway into the last session, Latham retired on 25 and was replaced by Mark Craig at the crease. Lad then followed up with the wicket of Wagner while Valsangkar claimed Ish Sodhi for naught to bring curtains down on the visitors’ innings. Result: Match Draw Brief scores: Day 1 - NZ 1st inn 324/7 decl. in 75 overs (T Latham 55, K Williamson 50, B Sandhu 2/21); Mumbai 1st inn 29/1 in 13 overs (A Jaffer 24*, K Pawar 5, T Boult 1/5) Trail by 295 runs Day 2 – Mumbai 1st inn 431/4 in 103 overs (S Yadav 103, K Pawar 100, S Lad 86*, A Jaffer 69, I Sodhi 2/132) Day 3 – Mumbai 1st inn 464/8 decl. in 114 overs (S Lad 100, M Craig 1/82); NZ 2nd inn 235 all out in 66.4 overs (L Ronchi 107,BJ Watling 43, P Valsangkar 3/41, S Lad 2/11)