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East Zone salvaged some pride at the end of a disappointing Deodhar Trophy campaign with a high-voltage batting performance and hunted down a mammoth target of 347 at Rajkot

West Zone kicked off the Deodhar Trophy in style with an emphatic 63-run victory over East at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai

It was a day for low totals as most teams who batted first were dismissed for under 200

MS Dhoni, recently chosen in the Indian one-day squad to Bangladesh, clattered 97 in 84 balls, but he was the lone star as Jharkhand struggled at Jamshedpur

Steve Tikolo warmed up for the ICC Champions Trophy with a superb innings of 156 which allowed Kenya to frustrate India A in the final first-class match of their tour at the Simba Union

Dheeraj Jadhav, the opening batsman from Maharashtra, struck an excellent 163 not out to help India A to 344 for 3 on the first day of their three-day game against Kenya

Mahendra Dhoni's superb unbeaten 119 carried India A to victory over their Pakistani counterparts, in the eighth match of the ongoing tournament in Nairobi

Gautam Gambhir and MS Dhoni cracked valuable centuries as India A thrashed Pakistan A by 121 runs at the Nairobi Gymkhana

Four dropped catches by the North Zone fielders, including two by Yuvraj Singh, could prove critical as East Zone gave themselves a fighting chance of an historic triumph at Mohali

Mahendra Dhoni cracked a fine 114 and helped East Zone amass a mammoth 324 for 4 against Central Zone at Jamshedpur

East Zone registered their third successive win of the tournament and Central Zone triumphed convincingly against North Zone in the Deodhar Trophy