West Zone closed with a memorable win after the highest and middle-order have been knocked out of the South Zone after setting an inconceivable goal of 529 runs within the Duleep Trophy ultimate.
South Zone suffered a large defeat at 156 for six at stumps on the fourth and ultimate day as they trailed by 375 runs. West Zone performed a mammoth innings of 585 for 4 of their second innings after taking a 57-run lead within the first innings.
Prolific run-scorer Sarfaraz Khan registered a scintillating, unbeaten century (127 off 178 balls) to proceed West’s cost after double centurion Yashvi Jaiswal was dismissed for 265 in a single day on the SNR College Cricket Ground.
By the top of the third day’s play, West Zone was enjoying 376 for 3 and Jaiswal was enjoying 209 runs in 244 balls. Jaiswal began the day from the place he left off final night, hitting 23 boundaries and 7 extra boundaries by the top of the third day’s play.
Jaiswal ultimately fell to off-spinner Krishnappa Gautam, who confronted 330 balls throughout his scintillating innings and added 164 runs for the fourth wicket with Sarfaraz.
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However, there was no respite for the bowlers from the south as Sarfaraz labored his means up with consummate ease to increase his group’s general lead and put them in a commanding place. Overall, Sarfaraz discovered the fence 11 instances and cleared it twice, together with an unbroken 103-run partnership with Het Patel (51 not out) to ease South Zone’s distress.
West captain Ajinkya Rahane introduced after Sarfaraz accomplished his century on Duleep Trophy debut. Patel scored a superb 98 within the first innings and hit seven fours and a six in simply 61 balls.
Batting for 5 seasons, the West left their opponents flat, and the South Zone group didn’t fairly recuperate from it. This was evident from his second innings batting, besides Rohan Kunnumal (93 runs in 100 balls), all of the batsmen failed to fulfill the problem.
Even as his colleagues went one after the opposite, Kunnummal was capable of bat fluently for the runs scored together with his group in extraordinarily troublesome situations. All the skilled South Zone batsmen failed and fell to the quick pair of Atit Sheth and Jaydev Unadkat, who bowled very effectively and took two wickets every. Kunnummal waged a lone battle however that too fell on the finish of the day, bowled by left-arm spinner Shams Mulani, who completed the day with figures of two/24 in seven overs. The likes of captain Hanuma Vihari, Mayank Agarwal, Baba Inderjit and Manish Pandey all failed to indicate a glimpse of a battle.
Brief Scores:
West Zone 270 and 585/4 declared in 128 overs (Yashasvi Jaiswal 265, Shreyas Iyer 71, Sarfaraz Khan 127; R Sai Kishore 2/157, Ok Gowtham 2/235).
South Zone 327 and 154/6 in 40 overs (Rohan Kunnumal 93; Jaydev Unadkat 2/26, Atit Sheth 2/29, Shams Mulani 2/24).
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
