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After having been set an improbable target of 517 with two-and-a-half sessions to go on the fifth day of the Duleep Trophy final, India Red's batsmen played a series of poor shots to fall well short of the far more achievable goal of batting out time for

Only 33 overs were possible on the fourth day of the Duleep Trophy final in Greater Noida where India Blue ended the day in a commanding position

Ravindra Jadeja's five-wicket haul dismissed India Red for 356 and handed India Blue a first-innings lead of 337 in Greater Noida

Having passed 700 in their last match, India Blue declared seven runs short of that mark in the Duleep Trophy final, with Cheteshwar Pujara scoring his tenth first-class double-hundred, before Pankaj Singh ripped into India Red's top order

BCCI president Anurag Thakur has said the pink ball, which was introduced to Indian first-class cricket in the Duleep Trophy, would be used in the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy as well

Cheteshwar Pujara's fluent unbeaten 111 and Gautam Gambhir's well-compiled 94 studded a dominant India Blue batting display over an India Red attack that lacked penetration and consistency