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Yash Rathore is unbeaten by scoring a century.
The final of the Duleep Trophy 2025 is being played between the Central Zone and the South Zone. Saturday is the third day of the match. Today the Central Zone started playing ahead of the score of 384/5 in their first innings. The team has taken a lead of over 300 in the first innings against South Zone. Yash Rathore and Deepak Chahar are unbeaten.
Earlier, South Zone was all out for 149 runs in the first innings on Thursday at the Center of Excellence Ground in Bangalore. The Central Zone won the toss and selected bowling.
The team on Friday carried out their first innings ahead with a score of 50/0 and scored 384 runs losing 5 wickets till the stumps. , Captain Rajat Patidar was dismissed for 101 runs. Apart from him, Danish Malewar 53, opener Akshay Wadkar 22, Shubham Sharma 6 and Upendra Yadav were dismissed for 5 runs.
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.