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The Duleep Trophy is the third and last day of both the semi -finals of 2025. In the first semi -finals, North Zone began to play ahead of his 278/5 in the first innings. The team is still behind the North Zone score. Earlier on Friday, the South Zone was all out for 536 runs in the first innings on the second day.
In another semi -finals, the Central Zone began to play further with a score of 556/8. The team was all out at the score of 600 runs in the first innings. West Zone’s team was all out for 438 runs in the first innings. Thus the Central Zone gained 162 runs on the basis of the first innings.
Both the semi -finals of the Dalip Trophy started on Thursday. In Bengaluru, both BCCI’s Center of Excellence grounds A and B are being matched.
Semifinal-1: North Zone vs South Zone
Shubham’s unbeaten century, Nishant Sindhu’s fifty On the third day, North Zone started batting in the first innings. Till the stumps, the team has scored 278 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. Shubham Khajuria 128 and Sahil Lotra are unbeaten on one run. Apart from Shubham, Nishant Sindhu put a fifty from the team. He was dismissed by Gurjapneet Singh for 82 runs. Ayush Badoni 40, Yash Dhul 12 and captain Ankit Kumar were dismissed for 6 runs.
Earlier, North Zone chose fielding in Ground-A. By the end of the second day’s play, the South Zone was all out by scoring 536 runs. Wicketkeeper Narayan Jagadisin scored the highest 197 runs. Devdutt Padikkal and Ricky Bhui put fifty.
Opener Tanmay Aggarwal (43 runs) and Narayan Jagadisin (197 runs) gave the team a strong start by making a 103 -run century partnership. However, Jagadisin missed out on scoring a double century. He was run out by Nishant on 197 runs. After this, Devdutt Padikkal (57 runs) scored a fifty and the team’s score was taken beyond 200. In the middle order, Ricky Bhui (54 runs) played a half -century innings and brought the team score to 400. Salman Nizar scored 29 runs.
Nishant Sindhu took 5 wickets from North Zone. Anshul Kamboj got 2 wickets.
Narayan Jagadisin returned unbeaten after scoring 197 runs.
Semifinal-2: West Zone vs Central Zone
Fifty of 5 players from Central Zone, 118 runs lead On the third day in Ground B, 5 batsmen from Central Zone put fifty. Danish Malevar, Shubham Sharma, Captain Rajat Patidar, Upendra Yadav and Harsh Dubey scored half -centuries from the team.
The Central Zone began to play its yesterday’s score 229/2. The team has scored 556/8 by the end of the day’s play. The Central Zone has taken a lead of 118 runs. Shubham Sharma 96, captain Rajat Patidar 77, Danish Malewar 76 and Harsh Dubey 75 were dismissed from the team. Dharmendrasinh Jadeja took 4 wickets from West Zone. Arjan Nagwaswala got 1 wicket.
On this, on Thursday, West Zone won the toss and chose batting. The team was dismissed for 438 runs in the first innings. Arya Desai, who landed on number-3 after the dismissal of Yashasvi Jaiswal (4 runs) and Harvik Desai (1 run) on the score of 10 runs, scored 39 runs and brought the team close to 100 runs.
Gaikwad missed by applying double century Rituraj Gaikwad scored 184 runs. Gaikwad hit 25 fours. In front of him, Shreyas Iyer was dismissed for 25 and Shams Mulani 18 runs. Gaikwad then took the innings with Tanush Kotian and took the team beyond 300. Gaikwad was dismissed for 184 runs.
Tanush Kotian (76 runs) and Shardul Thakur (64 runs) have scored half -centuries. Summary Jain and Harsh Dubey have taken 3-3 wickets. Khalil Ahmed took 2 wickets.
Four teams playing-11 for the semi-finals
West Zone: Shardul Thakur (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Arya Desai, Harvik Desai (wicketkeeper), Shreyas Iyer, Rituraj Gaikwad, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotion, Dharndarsinh Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Arjan Nagwaswala.
Central Zone: Silver Patidar (Captain), Ayush Pandey, Deepak Chahar, Danish Malewar, Harsh Dubey, Khalil Ahmed, Summary Jain, Upendra Yadav, Shubham Sharma, Yash Rathore, Yash Thakur.
South Zone: Mohammad Azharuddin (captain), Tanmay Aggarwal, Narayan Jagadisin, Ricky Bhui, Tanay Tyagarajan, Vasuki Kaushik, Gurjapneet Singh, Devdutt Padikkal, Nidhish MD, Mohit Kale, Salman Nizar.
North Zone: Ankit Kumar (Captain), Shubham Khajuria, Ayush Badoni, Yash Dhul, Nishant Sindhu, Kanhaiya Wadhavan, Sahil Lotra, Mayank Dagar, Akib Nabi, Yudhveer Singh Charak, Anshul Kamboj.