The Duleep Trophy match in Coimbatore had an disagreeable scene as Central Zone’s Venkatesh Iyer was pressured to stroll after he was hit on the pinnacle by West Zone seamer Chintan Gaja on Friday.
Iyer opened the account by hitting a six off the Gaza ball. On the subsequent ball, he defended it again to Gaza, who angrily threw it again at Iyer, and the batsman fell to the bottom in seen ache. The ambulance got here to the center of the sector, and the stretcher was additionally out, however the 27-year-old determined to stroll off the sector.
However, he bounced again, however was dismissed for 14 by Tanush Kotian.
The all-rounder returned to bat however will not be fielding for the Central Zone. Ashok Menaria is fielding in his place.
After batting, West Zone was bowled out for 257 runs. Prithvi Shaw (60), Rahul Tripathi (67), Shams Mulani (41) and Tanush Kotian (36) made exceptional contributions.
For Central Zone, Kumar Karthikeya (5/66) was the wrecker-in-chief.
In reply, the Central Zone group received out for 128 within the first innings. Captain Karan Sharma (34) was the highest scorer for the Central Zone.
For Central Zone, Jaydev Unadkat (3/24), Tanush Kotian (3/17), Atit Sheth (2/27), Chintan Gaza (1/25) and Shams Mulani (1/30) shared the spoils.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
