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The final of the Duleep Trophy 2025 is being played between the Central Zone and the South Zone. Sunday is the fourth day of the match. South Zone today started playing beyond its 129/2 score. Ravichandran is unbeaten with a memorial half -century.
South Zone scored 129 runs in the second innings for the loss of 2 wickets in the second innings till the third day on Saturday. On the third day of the match, the Central Zone began to play further with a score of 384/5. The team was all out for 511 runs in the first innings. South Zone scored 149 runs in the first innings. In this way, the Central Zone got a lead of 362 runs on the first innings basis. Yash Rathore (194) and captain Rajat Patidar (101) scored a century.
On the first day on the first day at the Center of Excellence Ground in Bangalore, the South Zone was all out for 149 runs in the first innings. The Central Zone won the toss and selected bowling.
Both openers out of South Zone Like the first innings, the beginning of the second innings of South Zone was nothing special. The team got the first blow on the score of 62 runs. Opener Mohit Kale was dismissed for 38 runs. The second wicket fell on a score of 76 runs. Tanmay Aggarwal returned to the pavilion for 26 runs. Jain and Kuldeep Sen got 1–1 wickets from the Central Zone.
Gurjapneet Singh and Ankit Sharma took 4-4 wickets On behalf of the Central Zone, Yash Rathore scored 194 and captain Rajat Patidar scored 101 runs. Apart from him, Danish Malewar 53, opener Akshay Wadkar 22, Shubham Sharma 6 and Upendra Yadav were dismissed for 5 runs. Gurjapneet Singh and Ankit Sharma took 4-4 wickets for the South Zone. MD Nidhesh and Vasuki Kaushik got 1–1 wickets.
Central Zone captain Rajat Patidar scored 101 runs.
South Zone Allout for 149 runs in the first innings The South Zone was reduced to 149 runs in the first innings. No batsman could play a big innings for the team. Tanmay Aggarwal scored the highest 31 runs for the team. Apart from him, Salman Nizzar 24, Ankit Sharma 20, Ricky Bhui 15 and MD Nidhesh scored 12 runs. Summary Jain took 5 wickets and Kumar Karthikeya took 4 wickets from the Central Zone.
Playing-11 of both teams
- South Zone: Mohammad Azharuddin (captain), Tanmay Aggarwal, Andre Siddharth, Gurjapneet Singh, Vasuki Kaushik, Mohit Kale, MD Nidhesh, Ricky Bhui, Salman Nizar, Ravichandran Smuran, Ankit Sharma.
- Central Zone: Rajat Patidar (Captain), Yash Rathore, Danish Malewar, Akshay Wadkar, Shubham Sharma, Upendra Yadav, Summary Jain, Aditya Thackeray, Deepak Chahar, Kumar Kartikeya, Kuldeep Sen.
Both were semi -final draws South Zone’s semi -final match was a draw against North Zone. At the same time, the Central Zone played the second semi -final match against West Zone and the match was also a draw.
South Zone has won the Dilip Trophy title 13 times, while the Central Zone has named the trophy 6 times.