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Akib Nabi celebrating after taking wickets.
Today is the third day of the quarter -finals of the Duleep Trophy 2025. There is an East zone in front of the North Zone, while the Central Zone is facing the Northeast Zone.
On the second day of the match, on Friday, North Zone bowler Aqib Nabi took 4 wickets for 4 consecutive balls. In front of his brilliant bowling, the East Zone team was all out on the score of 230 runs. In this way, the North Zone has gained 175 runs on the basis of first innings. North Zone scored 405 runs in his first innings.
In the second quarter -finals, Central Zone declared the innings on the first innings 532/4. In response, the North East Zone has scored 168 runs losing 7 wickets till the stumps on the second day. The team is currently 364 runs behind.

Aqib Nabi took 4 wickets from 4 consecutive balls. He took a total of 5 wickets in the first innings.
First bowler to take 4 wickets on 4 balls in Nabi Dalip Trophy Aqib Nabi became the first bowler to take 4 wickets off 4 balls in this tournament. Aqib, a resident of Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, took three wickets from the last three balls of the 53rd over. He caught Suraj Jaiswal at the hands of wicketkeeper Kanhaiya Wadhawan for 10 runs. Then Manishi was dismissed LBW at zero and Mukhtar Hussain was made clean bowled without opening an account. On the first ball of the 57th over, he took the fourth consecutive wicket by dismissing Mohammed Shami.
Earlier, at the beginning of the innings, Aqib dismissed Virat Singh, who was well frozen, for 69 runs. Nabi kept one over maiden in the first innings in the first innings and took 5 wickets for 28 runs. Kapil Dev and Sairaj are the third bowler to take a hat -trick in the Dalip Trophy after much. Virat Singh scored the highest 69 runs from the East Zone.
Northeast Zone is currently 364 runs behind The Central Zone declared the innings on the first innings 532/4. In response, Northeast Zone has scored 168 runs losing 7 wickets till the stumps on the second day. The team is currently 364 runs behind. For Northeast, Karnjeet Yumnam made 48 and Ashish Thapa made 35. Ankur Malik returned unbeaten after scoring 31 runs. From the Central Zone, Aditya Thackeray took 3 and Harsh Dubey took 2 wickets. Two players were run out.
Ayush Badoni-Vadwan from North Zone Put fifty On the first day, East Zone chose bowling in ground-1 of Center of Excellence. Wicketkeeper Kanhaiya Wadhawan and Ayush Badoni from North Zone put fifty. Kanhaiya scored 76 on 152 balls and Badoni scored 63 runs on 60 balls. Nishant Sindhu scored 47, Akib Nabi 44, Yash Dhul 39, captain Ankit Kumar 30, Shubman Khajuria 26 and Sahil Lotra scored 19 runs. Manishi took 6 wickets from East Zone. Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal took 2 wickets. Mohammed Shami and Mukhtar Hussain got 1–1 wickets. Mukesh Kumar could not take any wicket.
Malewar scored 203 runs On the first day at Ground-2 of the Center of Excellence in Bangalore, Northeast Zone won the toss and chose bowling. Danish Malevar was retired out of the Central Zone by scoring 203 runs. Captain Rajat Patidar scored 125 runs off just 96 balls. Aryan Juyal retired after scoring 60 runs. Yash Rathore scored an unbeaten 87 runs. Akash Kumar took 2 wickets from Northeast Zone and Jotin Feroizam took 1 wicket.

Rajat Patidar scored 125 runs off just 96 balls.
Playing of teams playing quarter-finals
North Zone team: Ankit Kumar (captain), Arshdeep Singh, Akib Nabi, Ayush Badoni, Harshit Rana, Kanhaiya Wadhavan (wicketkeeper), Mayank Dagar, Nishant Sindhu, Sahil Lotra, Shubham Khajuria, Yash Dhul.
East Zone: Ryan Parag (Captain), Kumar Kushagra, (wicketkeeper), Manishi, Mohammad Shami, Mukesh Kumar, Mukhtar Hussain, Shrimat Paul, Shaundeep Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Virat Singh.
The Duleep Trophy will be given to the tournament winning team.
Central Zone: Rajat Patidar (captain), Aditya Thackeray, Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper), Ayush Pandey, Deepak Chahar, Danish Malwar, Harsh Dubey, Kuldeep Singh Yadav, Khalil Ahmed, Shubman Sharma, Yash Rathore.
North-East Zone: Team of North-East Zone: Rongsen Jonathan (captain), Akash Kumar Chaudhary, Ankur, Ashish Thapa, Bishworjit Singh Kongam, Doria, Hem Bahadur Chhetri, Anderson (wicketkeeper), Jotin Ferozam, Karnjeet, Palajor Tamang.