Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Faiz Fazal	c Vihari b Aparajith	49	127	-	7	0	38.58
Jalaj Saxena	c †Karthik b Vinay Kumar	2	43	-	0	0	4.65

Robin Bist	c Mithun b Ojha	79	153	-	12	1	51.63
Naman Ojha †	c Vinay Kumar b Aparajith	4	5	-	1	0	80.00
Ashok Menaria	st †Karthik b Vihari	37	64	-	7	0	57.81
Mahesh Rawat	c †Karthik b Gopal	0	3	-	0	0	0.00
Arindam Ghosh	c Aparajith b Vinay Kumar	32	86	-	6	0	37.20
Piyush Chawla (c)	c Uthappa b Sharath	30	56	-	4	0	53.57
Ali Murtaza	b Mithun	16	36	-	3	0	44.44
Ishwar Pandey	lbw b Ojha	15	21	-	3	0	71.42
Pankaj Singh	not out	8	10	-	2	0	80.00
Extras	(nb 4)	4
Total	100 Ov (RR: 2.76)	276
Fall of wickets 1-25 (Jalaj Saxena, 17.2 ov), 2-90 (Faiz Fazal, 38.1 ov), 3-94 (Naman Ojha, 38.6 ov), 4-162 (Ashok Menaria, 61.6 ov), 5-163 (Mahesh Rawat, 62.4 ov), 6-185 (Robin Bist, 68.2 ov), 7-237 (Piyush Chawla, 86.6 ov), 8-237 (Arindam Ghosh, 89.5 ov), 9-262 (Ishwar Pandey, 96.2 ov), 10-276 (Ali Murtaza, 99.6 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Vinay Kumar	25	9	54	2	2.16	41	0	1
17.2 to Jalaj S Saxena, appeal for caught behind and the finger has gone up, Vinay breaks the stand! It was swinging away after pitching on length outside off, DK caught it and appealed straight away after Jalaj leaned forward to drive. Looks like there was a faint edge but the batsman looks unhappy with the decision. There was a sound but replays are not 100% conclusive. 25/1
Abhimanyu Mithun	17	9	35	1	2.05	34	0	3
HS Sharath	17	6	56	1	3.29	19	0	0
Pragyan Ojha	19	4	49	2	2.57	-	0	0
Shreyas Gopal	14	2	53	1	3.78	-	0	0
Robin Uthappa	1	0	1	0	1.00	-	0	0
Baba Aparajith	6	0	26	2	4.33	-	0	0
Hanuma Vihari	1	0	2	1	2.00	-	0	0

South Zone 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Robin Uthappa	lbw b Jalaj S Saxena	80	97	-	13	2	82.47
KL Rahul	b Chawla	185	233	-	19	2	79.39
Baba Aparajith	c †Ojha b Pankaj Singh	21	54	-	2	1	38.88
Dinesh Karthik †	lbw b Pankaj Singh	0	2	-	0	0	0.00
Ramaswamy Prasanna	c †Ojha b Pankaj Singh	0	8	-	0	0	0.00
Hanuma Vihari	b Murtaza	75	97	-	10	2	77.31
Vinay Kumar (c)	lbw b Murtaza	2	6	-	0	0	33.33
Shreyas Gopal	not out	13	25	-	2	0	52.00
Abhimanyu Mithun	lbw b Murtaza	0	4	-	0	0	0.00
Pragyan Ojha	c Jalaj S Saxena b Murtaza	1	14	-	0	0	7.14
HS Sharath	c & b Chawla	0	3	-	0	0	0.00
Extras	(lb 2)	2
Total	90.3 Ov (RR: 4.18)	379
Fall of wickets 1-168 (Robin Uthappa, 34.2 ov), 2-231 (Baba Aparajith, 51.4 ov), 3-231 (Dinesh Karthik, 51.6 ov), 4-233 (Ramaswamy Prasanna, 53.5 ov), 5-359 (KL Rahul, 80.6 ov), 6-363 (Hanuma Vihari, 81.5 ov), 7-366 (Vinay Kumar, 83.5 ov), 8-370 (Abhimanyu Mithun, 85.3 ov), 9-378 (Pragyan Ojha, 89.5 ov), 10-379 (HS Sharath, 90.3 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s
Pankaj Singh	20	3	67	3	3.35	-
Ishwar Pandey	17	2	72	0	4.23	-
Faiz Fazal	3	0	13	0	4.33	-
Ali Murtaza	13	1	59	4	4.53	-
Piyush Chawla	20.3	3	95	2	4.63	-
Jalaj Saxena	17	0	71	1	4.17	-

Central Zone 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Faiz Fazal	c Aparajith b Vinay Kumar	72	139	-	11	0	51.79

Jalaj Saxena	lbw b Ojha	71	119	-	14	0	59.66

Robin Bist	not out	112	174	-	8	4	64.36
Naman Ojha †	c Uthappa b Gopal	27	35	-	5	0	77.14

Ashok Menaria	lbw b Gopal	0	3	-	0	0	0.00

Mahesh Rawat	lbw b Ojha	16	24	-	3	0	66.66

Arindam Ghosh	st †Karthik b Ojha	22	47	-	2	0	46.80

Piyush Chawla (c)	st †Karthik b Aparajith	0	8	-	0	0	0.00

Ali Murtaza	c †Karthik b Mithun	50	67	-	6	1	74.62

Ishwar Pandey	b Gopal	17	19	-	2	1	89.47

Pankaj Singh	c Aparajith b Gopal	6	2	-	0	1	300.00

Extras	(b 6, lb 2, nb 2)	10
Total	105.5 Ov (RR: 3.80)	403
Fall of wickets 1-128 (Jalaj Saxena, 37.5 ov), 2-160 (Faiz Fazal, 46.5 ov), 3-195 (Naman Ojha, 57.5 ov), 4-201 (Ashok Menaria, 59.2 ov), 5-219 (Mahesh Rawat, 65.4 ov), 6-259 (Arindam Ghosh, 77.3 ov), 7-260 (Piyush Chawla, 78.6 ov), 8-364 (Ali Murtaza, 100.2 ov), 9-397 (Ishwar Pandey, 105.3 ov), 10-403 (Pankaj Singh, 105.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Vinay Kumar	17	1	91	1	5.35	67	0	0
46.5 to FY Fazal, another short ball and he's into the pull too early! Gets a top edge and the ball soars high and carries only as far as the deep square leg fielder. Dragging this from outside off, when it was almost at shoulder height wouldn;t have helped either. Good contribution from Fazal. Central have more than a solid foundation to take control of this game. 160/2
Abhimanyu Mithun	16	1	64	1	4.00	65	0	2
100.2 to AG Murtaza, and walks back straightaway, but nothing to take away from him, that's a superb delivery making him to come on the front foot. It was on a length and induces the drive, the away movement kisses the outside edge and Karthik dives full length to his left to grab that with one hand.. 364/8
Pragyan Ojha	36	9	99	3	2.75	168	0	0
37.5 to Jalaj S Saxena, finally Ojha gets a leg before appeal in his favour. Saxena was lunging forward as often as he could, but this time his bat was more or less hidden behind the pad. Struck in line with middle and this pitch does not have enough turn for that ball to have gone anywhere but the off stump. Saxena wasn't pleased, he thought he'd hit it. He had, but it was pad first. 128/1 65.4 to M Rawat, this was pushes quicker through air and kept low, Rawat gets forward to defend but it came back in sharply. The bounce and and the sharp turn beats his defence and found infront of the stumps.. 219/5 77.3 to AN Ghosh, this was brilliantly done by Ojha, tossed up delivery on off which turns away from outside off. Ghosh takes a big stride forward to defend and was beaten by the movement, Karthik was aware of all the happenings and removes the bails in a flash. Gosh unable to drag his foot back and was near to the line, very much straight forward decision. 259/6
Shreyas Gopal	14.5	2	60	4	4.04	62	0	0
57.5 to NV Ojha, another wicket, Ojha falls cheaply, Gopal gets the ball to bounce plenty, much like Kumble did so many times, gets the top edge and the ball flies to Uthappa at slip. 195/3 59.2 to AL Menaria, umpire Anil Chaudhary had made a shocking lbw call here, the ball from Shreyas stayed low and turned a fair hit, hit Menaria low on the pad, but it struck him well outside leg and was spinning further down, Menaria has every reason to be upset to bag a duck to this sort of decision. 201/4 105.3 to IC Pandey, and that's a killer delivery for a number 10, perfect googly done the job for Pandey. Tossed it up on middle and off inducing him to get forward, plays across the line and that sneaks through the gate and knocks the middle stump out.. 397/9 105.5 to Pankaj Singh, tossed it up well outside off, Pankaj once again goes for the mighty hoick, ends up slicing that towards cover where Baba runs to his left and grabs to bring the end of Central innings.. 403/10
HS Sharath	13	3	46	0	3.53	50	0	0
Baba Aparajith	9	2	35	1	3.88	39	0	0
78.6 to PP Chawla, This is just some silly stuff from Chawla, loses his patience and steps out for a big heave. Aparajith pushes that touch quicker through air and spun away slightly beating Chawla's bat. Karthik once again very keen behind the stumps and does his job without an error. He was long way down the pitch and walks back.. 260/7

South Zone 2nd Innings (T: 301 runs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Robin Uthappa	c & b Chawla	30	72	-	3	0	41.66

KL Rahul	lbw b Pankaj Singh	130	152	-	14	5	85.52

Baba Aparajith	st †Ojha b Chawla	56	138	-	6	1	40.57

Dinesh Karthik †	b Pankaj Singh	0	4	-	0	0	0.00

Ramaswamy Prasanna	lbw b Jalaj S Saxena	29	63	-	3	2	46.03

Hanuma Vihari	c & b Jalaj S Saxena	1	14	-	0	0	7.14

Vinay Kumar (c)	b Murtaza	24	38	-	3	0	63.15

Shreyas Gopal	b Murtaza	12	26	-	1	0	46.15

Pragyan Ojha	lbw b Chawla	2	16	-	0	0	12.50

Abhimanyu Mithun	b Murtaza	0	6	-	0	0	0.00

HS Sharath	not out	0	3	-	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 4, lb 3)	7
Total	88.4 Ov (RR: 3.28)	291
Fall of wickets 1-96 (Robin Uthappa, 24.3 ov), 2-203 (KL Rahul, 50.2 ov), 3-203 (Dinesh Karthik, 50.6 ov), 4-252 (Ramaswamy Prasanna, 71.2 ov), 5-252 (Baba Aparajith, 72.1 ov), 6-260 (Hanuma Vihari, 75.6 ov), 7-280 (Vinay Kumar, 82.1 ov), 8-289 (Pragyan Ojha, 85.4 ov), 9-290 (Abhimanyu Mithun, 86.6 ov), 10-291 (Shreyas Gopal, 88.4 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Pankaj Singh	19	7	45	2	2.36	88	0	0
50.2 to KL Rahul, finally Rahul walks back but not before landing his team in a commanding position, back of a length which jags back in from outside off. Rahul plays across it and the movement and bounce was good enough to beat his bat which struck infront of middle and leg. Are we await for some miracles here?. 203/2 50.6 to KD Karthik, Pankaj gets him once again, another duck for Karthik, that's on a good length just around off. He thought of leaving it but checks it and tries to dab it down, that was too close to his body and ends up chopping it back onto the stumps, first time he got a pair in a first class match. I must say this is not an easy going for South from here.. 203/3
Ishwar Pandey	16	6	53	0	3.31	76	0	0
Ali Murtaza	16.4	2	59	3	3.54	70	0	0
82.1 to R Vinay Kumar, South loses another one, Murtaza strikes as Vinay goes by charging down the track. He pushes quicker through air and that was flatter and on a length, came a bit in and he misses it completely as he tried to play against the line, went quite away from his bat which shatters the stumps.. 280/7 86.6 to A Mithun, That was simply ridiculous, a tail ender way of getting out. That was bowled from round the wicket and kept it short on middle and leg, it didn't spun and straightens. He gets down on knee for a big slog but comprehensively beaten and been bowled. 290/9 88.4 to S Gopal, that was tossed up from round the wicket on middle. It was quicker through air and Gopal steps out for a mighty hoick, misses the line which knocks the middle stump. Huge chants from the Central players who won by 9 runs.. 291/10
Jalaj Saxena	16	3	44	2	2.75	71	0	0
71.2 to R Prasanna, Oh ho! This is not yet over, Jalaj just gets this right as he comes round the wicket, it was tossed up on middle and kept straight. Prasanna plays for the turn but it went the other way and was found in front of the stumps.. 252/4 75.6 to GH Vihari, Jalaj gets another important wicket, that was tossed up outside off and Vihari tries to play against the turn which lobs of the leading edge back towards the bowler. He moves to his left and dives full length to pouch that without any trouble, this is going down to wire.. 260/6
Piyush Chawla	20	1	83	3	4.15	82	0	0
24.3 to RV Uthappa, finally Piyush able to give the breakthrough, that was quicker through air and well outside off. Uthappa gets forward for the drive and plays for the spin, that was a googly which he didn't read and end up slicing that to the left of Chawla.. 96/1 72.1 to B Aparajith, Is South throwing this away? This is superbly done by Chawla, tossed it up on middle and leg as Baba comes down the track as he tries to work it against turn to on side. This one turns away as a genuine leggie and didn't reached the pitch of the delivery, Ojha did the rest.. 252/5 85.4 to PP Ojha, Chawla strikes, comes round the wicket and that turns back in sharply for the leftie. Ojha get his bat pad together and tries to defend but been beaten by the spin and pace, found infront of the wickets, given!. 289/8
Ashok Menaria	1	1	0	0	0.00	6	0	0

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Close of Play

Wed, 29 Oct

day 1 - Central Zone 1st innings 237/7 (Arindam Ghosh 32*, 87 ov)

Thu, 30 Oct

day 2 - South Zone 1st innings 308/4 (KL Rahul 168*, Hanuma Vihari 38*, 69 ov)

Fri, 31 Oct

day 3 - Central Zone 2nd innings 214/4 (Robin Bist 26*, Mahesh Rawat 11*, 62 ov)

Sat, 01 Nov

day 4 - South Zone 2nd innings 184/1 (KL Rahul 121*, Baba Aparajith 30*, 44 ov)

Sun, 02 Nov

day 5 - South Zone 2nd innings 291 (88.4 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

Day 1

Central Zone 1st innings

Drinks: Central Zone - 25/0 in 17.0 overs (FY Fazal 22, Jalaj S Saxena 2)

Central Zone: 50 runs in 27.6 overs (170 balls), Extras 2

2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 100 balls (FY Fazal 23, R Bist 26, Ex 1)

Lunch: Central Zone - 75/1 in 34.0 overs (FY Fazal 45, R Bist 26)

Central Zone: 100 runs in 40.6 overs (248 balls), Extras 2

Drinks: Central Zone - 116/3 in 50.0 overs (R Bist 44, AL Menaria 14)

R Bist: 50 off 104 balls (7 x 4, 1 x 6)

4th Wicket: 50 runs in 104 balls (R Bist 17, AL Menaria 32, Ex 1)

Central Zone: 150 runs in 57.1 overs (346 balls), Extras 3

Tea: Central Zone - 163/5 in 62.4 overs (R Bist 68)

Central Zone: 200 runs in 72.4 overs (440 balls), Extras 4

Drinks: Central Zone - 208/6 in 77.0 overs (AN Ghosh 21, PP Chawla 12)

7th Wicket: 50 runs in 101 balls (AN Ghosh 22, PP Chawla 29, Ex 0)

End Of Day: Central Zone - 237/7 in 87.0 overs (AN Ghosh 32)

Day 2

Central Zone: 250 runs in 93.2 overs (564 balls), Extras 4

Innings Break: Central Zone - 276/10 in 100.0 overs (Pankaj Singh 8)

South Zone 1st innings

Drinks: South Zone - 32/0 in 11.0 overs (RV Uthappa 6, KL Rahul 26)

South Zone: 50 runs in 13.5 overs (83 balls), Extras 0

1st Wicket: 50 runs in 83 balls (RV Uthappa 17, KL Rahul 34, Ex 0)

Lunch: South Zone - 65/0 in 18.0 overs (RV Uthappa 23, KL Rahul 42)

KL Rahul: 50 off 57 balls (8 x 4)

South Zone: 100 runs in 23.5 overs (143 balls), Extras 0

1st Wicket: 100 runs in 143 balls (RV Uthappa 36, KL Rahul 64, Ex 0)

RV Uthappa: 50 off 83 balls (10 x 4)

South Zone: 150 runs in 31.6 overs (192 balls), Extras 0

Drinks: South Zone - 153/0 in 32.0 overs (RV Uthappa 70, KL Rahul 83)

1st Wicket: 150 runs in 192 balls (RV Uthappa 70, KL Rahul 83, Ex 0)

KL Rahul: 100 off 120 balls (12 x 4, 2 x 6)

South Zone: 200 runs in 42.6 overs (258 balls), Extras 0

Tea: South Zone - 210/1 in 46.0 overs (KL Rahul 121, B Aparajith 9)

2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 88 balls (KL Rahul 34, B Aparajith 16, Ex 0)

South Zone: 250 runs in 56.6 overs (342 balls), Extras 1

Drinks: South Zone - 250/4 in 57.0 overs (KL Rahul 138, GH Vihari 10)

KL Rahul: 150 off 180 balls (18 x 4, 2 x 6)

5th Wicket: 50 runs in 60 balls (KL Rahul 23, GH Vihari 28, Ex 1)

South Zone: 300 runs in 67.3 overs (405 balls), Extras 1

End Of Day: South Zone - 308/4 in 69.0 overs (KL Rahul 168, GH Vihari 38)

Day 3

5th Wicket: 100 runs in 132 balls (KL Rahul 49, GH Vihari 49, Ex 2)

GH Vihari: 50 off 69 balls (8 x 4)

South Zone: 350 runs in 79.5 overs (479 balls), Extras 2

Drinks: South Zone - 373/8 in 88.0 overs (S Gopal 7, PP Ojha 1)

Innings Break: South Zone - 379/10 in 90.3 overs (S Gopal 13)

Central Zone 2nd innings

Central Zone: 50 runs in 9.1 overs (55 balls), Extras 3

1st Wicket: 50 runs in 55 balls (FY Fazal 23, Jalaj S Saxena 24, Ex 3)

Lunch: Central Zone - 68/0 in 12.0 overs (FY Fazal 28, Jalaj S Saxena 37)

Jalaj S Saxena: 50 off 64 balls (11 x 4)

Central Zone: 100 runs in 24.3 overs (147 balls), Extras 3

1st Wicket: 100 runs in 147 balls (FY Fazal 43, Jalaj S Saxena 56, Ex 3)

Drinks: Central Zone - 105/0 in 28.0 overs (FY Fazal 46, Jalaj S Saxena

56)

FY Fazal: 50 off 105 balls (7 x 4)

Tea: Central Zone - 138/1 in 42.0 overs (FY Fazal 60, R Bist 0)

Central Zone: 150 runs in 43.6 overs (264 balls), Extras 7

Drinks: Central Zone - 195/2 in 57.0 overs (R Bist 18, NV Ojha 27)

Central Zone: 200 runs in 58.5 overs (353 balls), Extras 7

End Of Day: Central Zone - 214/4 in 62.0 overs (R Bist 26, M Rawat 11)

Match Details

GroundFeroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

TossCentral Zone, elected to bat first

Series

Duleep Trophy

Season2014/15

Series resultCentral Zone won the 2014/15 Duleep Trophy

Hours of play (local time)09.30 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 16.30

Match days29,30,31 October 1,2 November 2014 - day (5-day match)

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