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Yash Rathod added heft to his reputation as a dependable red-ball batter with a fluent 194 against South Zone in the Duleep Trophy final at the BCCI CoE Ground (1) here on Saturday. The Central Zone southpaw carried on seamlessly from his overnight score of 137. Rathod’s big knock took his side to a mammoth 511, leaving South with no hope of making a comeback. South ended the third day on 129 for…

Centuries from Yash Rathod (137 batting, 188b, 11×4, 1×6) and Rajat Patidar (101, 115b, 12×4, 2×6) took Central Zone to a strong position against South Zone on the second day of their Duleep Trophy final at the BCCI CoE Ground (1) here on Friday. Rathod and Patidar shut South out of the contest with a 167-run fourth-wicket stand. Central finished the day on 384 for five, with a 235-run innings…

Promising batters Ravichandran Smaran of Karnataka and Andre Siddarth of Tamil Nadu were on Sunday added to South Zone squad for the Duleep Trophy final. South Zone will face Central Zone in the five-day title clash here at the BCCI Centre of Excellence grounds from September 11. The 22-year-old Smaran and the 19-year-old Siddarth were in the standbys list during the semifinal phase, and now that…

West vs Central West Zone: A. Nagwaswalla, Aarya Desai, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Harvik Desai (wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shams Mulani, Shardul Thakur (c), Shreyas lyer, Tanush Kotian, Tushar Deshpande, Yashasvi Jaiswal.  Central Zone: Ayush Pandey, Deepak Chahar, Danish Malewar, Harsh Dubey, Rajat Patidar (c), Khaleel Ahmed, Saransh Jain, Shubham Sharma, Upendra Yadav (wk), Y A Rathod, Yash…

North Zone’s batters Nishant Sindhu and Shubham Khajuria run between the wickets (left) and Central Zone’s Rajat Patidar (right) Bengaluru: The strength of the Central Zone team lay in flashes of individual batting brilliance on the penultimate day of their Duleep Trophy semifinal against West Zone here on Saturday. At the BCCI Centre of Excellence, most of the Central batters looked settled…

A horror mix-up cost South Zone’s N. Jagadeesan a double century against North Zone on the second day of the Duleep Trophy semifinal at BCCI COE Ground (1) here on Friday. Jagadeesan’s long vigil was cut short on 197, courtesy a run-out involving partner Ricky Bhui. The Tamil Nadu opener’s knock, to go with contributions from Bhui (54) and Tanay Thyagarajan (58), took South Zone to a commanding…

Ruturaj Gaikwad’s 2025 IPL season was cut short after just five matches, when he was forced out due to an elbow injury. With the batter ruled out, Chennai Super Kings’ captaincy duties went back to M.S. Dhoni. Gaikwad watched from home as CSK had a poor campaign, becoming the first team to be eliminated from the tournament. Gaikwad describes the nature of the injury — struck on the elbow when…

North Zone: Ankit Kumar (c), Shubham Khajuria, Ayush Badoni, Yash Dhull, Ankit Kalsi, Nishant Sandhu, Sahil Lotra, Mayank Dagar, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Anshul Kamboj, Auqib Nabi, Kanhaiya Wadhawan; (Standbys: Shubham Arora (wk), Jaskaranvir Singh Paul, Ravi Chauhan, Abid Mushtaq, Nishunk Birla, Umar Nazir, Divesh Sharma).  Central Zone: Dhruv Jurel (c) (wk), Rajat Patidar, Aryan Juyal, Danish…