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The Central Zone captain Rajat Patidar is unbeaten by scoring a half -century.
The Duleep Trophy is the third day of both the 2025 semi -finals. The first session game continues. On the third day, North Zone started batting in the first innings against South Zone. Earlier on Friday, the South Zone was all out for 536 runs in the first innings on the second day.
In another semi -finals, West Zone began to play beyond the score of 229/2. West Zone’s team was all out for 438 runs in 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
Jagadisin missed from double century, South Zone Allout for 536 runs
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
Danish from Central Zone, Shubham’s fifty, Patidar unbeaten on 47 runs
On the second day in Ground B, the Central Zone scored 229 runs losing 2 wickets. Shubham Sharma (60 runs) and captain Rajat Rajat Patidar (47 runs) from the team returned unbeaten. After T-Breck, Danish Malevar was dismissed for 76 runs. He hit 12 fours and a six.
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.