Three runs shy of his 42nd ODI century, the Mumbai batsman dragged an Umar Gul delivery onto his stumps and departed for 97.

It was sixth time in his last 19 outings that he fell in the nineties. On three of those occasions he was short by just one run.

Incidentally, it was Gul who denied him a century in Mohali. He dismissed him for 99 in the second ODI there.