Badri’s men lift Duleep Trophy
Visakhapatnam, Jan. 5: South Zone put their last year’s defeat in Duleep Trophy final behind them, winning this year’s edition by seven wickets over North Zone here on Saturday. Set a 178-run target after North were bowled out for 317, South took just 24 overs to romp home.
It was South’s first Duleep win after after a gap of 15 years. South Zone captain S. Badrinath was declared man-of-the-match. Opener Robin Uthappa made the North Zone bowling attack look feeble with his 71-run knock off 48 balls including three sixes and eight fours. His partner Abhinav Mukund scored a quick 63 off 67 balls while Manish Pandey, coming down the order, scored 37 off 24 balls.
Earlier, middle-order batsman Mithun Manhas top-scored for North while opener Nitin Saini made a solid 65.
“We played sensible cricket by bowling tight and fielding well. The batsmen did not have to deal with the pressure. All that they had to do was stick on for a while and wait for the runs to flow,” said Badrinath
Both the captains said that the pitch played true and was a batsmen’s paradise. “Credit must go to the South Zone bowlers, they kept it tight,” said North Zone skipper Amit Mishra.
Scoreboard
North Zone 1st innings 337
South Zone 1st innings 477
North Zone 2nd innings (Overnight 50/1)
Nitin Saini c Gautam b Ojha 65, Shikhar Dhawan c Sumanth b Ojha 19, Mandeep Singh c Gautam b Aravind 22, Mithun Manhas c Pandey b Aravind 79, Paras Dogra c Verma b Ojha 44, Yashpal Singh not out 42, Uday Kaul c Gautam b Aravind 3, Sumit Narwal c Gautam b Mukund 0, Amit Mishra lbw Mithun 30, Ishant Sharma lbw Mithun 1, Joginder Sharma b Mithun 0.
Extras (b4, lb3, w4, nb1) 12
Total (in 88.5 overs) 317
FoW: 1-30, 2-87, 3-145, 4-230, 5-244, 6-253, 7-254, 8-305, 9-317, 10-317.
Bowling: R. Vinay Kumar 16-4-64-0 (w4), Abhimanyu Mithun 14.5-6-42-3 (nb1), Pragyan Ojha 25-1-94-3, Sreenath Aravind 26-6-76-3, Abhinav Mukund 5-0-25-1, Amit Verma 1-0-2-0, Robin Uthappa 1-0-7-0.
South Zone 2nd innings
Abhinav Mukund not out 64, Robin Uthappa c sub b Narwal 71, Amit Verma c&b Yashpal Singh 0, Manish Pandey b Yashpal Singh 37, Bodapatti Sumanth not out 2.
Extras (lb4) 4
Total (in 23.4 overs) 178/3
FoW: 1-100, 2-100, 3-166
Bowling: Sumit Narwal 5.4-1-38-1, Ishant Sharma 4-0-31-0, Amit Mishra 3-0-28-0, Joginder Sharma 1.2-0-5-0, Yashpal Singh 6-0-40-2, Mithun Manhas 2-0-17-0, Shikhar Dhawan 1.4-0-15-0.
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