Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Abhinav Mukund	c †Ojha b Pankaj Singh	13	45	68	3	0	28.88
Robin Uthappa	c Kartik b Pankaj Singh	22	36	57	4	0	61.11
Rahul Dravid	c Parvinder Singh b Yadav	7	10	16	0	0	70.00
VVS Laxman (c)	c †Ojha b Yadav	13	48	65	2	0	27.08
S Badrinath	c Kartik b Kumar	13	19	30	3	0	68.42
Arjun Yadav	c Kaif b Yadav	3	8	12	0	0	37.50
Dinesh Karthik †	c Goud b Kumar	153	113	137	24	4	135.39
Ravichandran Ashwin	c Parvinder Singh b Yadav	23	35	47	5	0	65.71
Marripuri Suresh	not out	58	91	145	7	0	63.73
Lakshmipathy Balaji	b Yadav	1	19	29	0	0	5.26
Sreesanth	lbw b Kartik	8	24	35	0	0	33.33
Extras	(b 4, lb 4, nb 5, w 2)	15
Total	73.5 Ov (RR: 4.45, 329 Mins)	329
Fall of wickets: 1-46 (Robin Uthappa, 12.2 ov), 2-53 (Abhinav Mukund, 14.2 ov), 3-57 (Rahul Dravid, 15.2 ov), 4-78 (S Badrinath, 22.1 ov), 5-81 (Arjun Yadav, 25.1 ov), 6-86 (VVS Laxman, 29.2 ov), 7-144 (Ravichandran Ashwin, 41.5 ov), 8-290 (Dinesh Karthik, 58.2 ov), 9-310 (Lakshmipathy Balaji, 65.5 ov), 10-329 (Sreesanth, 73.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Pankaj Singh	17	3	77	2	4.52	-	-	-	0	0
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	20	4	68	2	3.40	-	-	-	1	5
Umesh Yadav	23	5	76	5	3.30	-	-	-	0	0
Murali Kartik	7.5	0	42	1	5.36	-	-	-	0	0
Piyush Chawla	4	0	34	0	8.50	-	-	-	0	0
Parvinder Singh	2	0	24	0	12.00	-	-	-	1	0

Central Zone 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Tanmay Srivastava	c †Karthik b Uthappa	24	67	101	5	0	35.82
Shivakant Shukla	b Sreesanth	26	77	128	5	0	33.76
Yere Goud	c †Karthik b Balaji	4	23	32	1	0	17.39
Mohammad Kaif (c)	c Uthappa b Suresh	73	118	168	11	1	61.86
Parvinder Singh	lbw b Sreesanth	5	16	22	1	0	31.25
Naman Ojha †	lbw b Sreesanth	85	168	220	7	2	50.59
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	c †Karthik b Uthappa	28	68	88	4	0	41.17
Piyush Chawla	c Laxman b Ashwin	35	28	50	7	0	125.00
Murali Kartik	not out	23	32	54	4	0	71.87
Pankaj Singh	lbw b Balaji	1	10	12	0	0	10.00
Umesh Yadav	b Balaji	0	2	1	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 4, lb 5, nb 6, w 7)	22
Total	100.3 Ov (RR: 3.24, 445 Mins)	326
Fall of wickets: 1-52 (Tanmay Srivastava, 20.2 ov), 2-65 (Shivakant Shukla, 26.4 ov), 3-65 (Yere Goud, 27.3 ov), 4-78 (Parvinder Singh, 32.1 ov), 5-205 (Mohammad Kaif, 67.3 ov), 6-265 (Naman Ojha, 88.3 ov), 7-266 (Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 89.1 ov), 8-323 (Piyush Chawla, 97.2 ov), 9-326 (Pankaj Singh, 100.1 ov), 10-326 (Umesh Yadav, 100.3 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Lakshmipathy Balaji	28.3	8	72	3	2.52	-	-	-	1	1
Sreesanth	25	4	92	3	3.68	-	-	-	2	5
Ravichandran Ashwin	26	1	86	1	3.30	-	-	-	0	0
Robin Uthappa	11	2	41	2	3.72	-	-	-	0	0
Marripuri Suresh	10	1	26	1	2.60	-	-	-	0	0

South Zone 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Abhinav Mukund	b Pankaj Singh	1	21	29	0	0	4.76
Robin Uthappa	c Chawla b Kumar	16	20	23	4	0	80.00
Rahul Dravid	c †Ojha b Kumar	118	218	287	19	1	54.12
S Badrinath	c †Ojha b Pankaj Singh	0	4	7	0	0	0.00
Arjun Yadav	st †Ojha b Kartik	68	124	169	11	1	54.83
Dinesh Karthik †	c †Ojha b Pankaj Singh	103	121	152	17	0	85.12
Marripuri Suresh	c †Ojha b Yadav	15	19	36	2	0	78.94
Ravichandran Ashwin	not out	27	43	53	5	0	62.79
Lakshmipathy Balaji	c †Ojha b Pankaj Singh	5	26	40	0	0	19.23
Sreesanth	b Pankaj Singh	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
VVS Laxman (c)	absent hurt	-	-	-	-	-	-
Extras	(b 8, lb 9, nb 6, w 1)	24
Total	98.3 Ov (RR: 3.82, 404 Mins)	377
Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Robin Uthappa, 5.4 ov), 2-23 (Abhinav Mukund, 6.6 ov), 3-24 (S Badrinath, 8.4 ov), 4-178 (Arjun Yadav, 49.2 ov), 5-303 (Rahul Dravid, 77.5 ov), 6-337 (Marripuri Suresh, 85.1 ov), 7-345 (Dinesh Karthik, 88.2 ov), 8-377 (Lakshmipathy Balaji, 98.2 ov), 9-377 (Sreesanth, 98.3 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Pankaj Singh	23.3	5	90	5	3.82	-	-	-	1	0
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	23	3	66	2	2.86	-	-	-	0	6
Umesh Yadav	24	3	88	1	3.66	-	-	-	0	0
Murali Kartik	15	3	56	1	3.73	-	-	-	0	0
Parvinder Singh	4	1	17	0	4.25	-	-	-	0	0
Piyush Chawla	9	0	43	0	4.77	-	-	-	0	0

Central Zone 2nd Innings (T: 381 runs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Tanmay Srivastava	c & b Suresh	44	71	87	8	0	61.97
Shivakant Shukla	c Dravid b Suresh	31	75	117	5	0	41.33
Yere Goud	c Uthappa b Suresh	10	15	20	1	0	66.66
Mohammad Kaif (c)	c sub (SS Bandekar) b Uthappa	87	110	149	11	0	79.09
Parvinder Singh	c †Karthik b Suresh	34	45	44	5	1	75.55
Naman Ojha †	c †Karthik b Suresh	2	7	7	0	0	28.57
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	c Uthappa b Suresh	7	36	27	0	0	19.44
Piyush Chawla	c sub (SA Pai) b Uthappa	22	30	34	2	1	73.33
Murali Kartik	c sub (SB Jakati) b Uthappa	0	2	4	0	0	0.00
Pankaj Singh	not out	5	20	21	1	0	25.00
Extras	(b 1, lb 7, nb 5)	13
Total	67.4 Ov (RR: 3.76, 260 Mins)	255/9
Did not bat: Umesh Yadav
Fall of wickets: 1-71 (Tanmay Srivastava, 21.1 ov), 2-86 (Yere Goud, 25.4 ov), 3-98 (Shivakant Shukla, 27.2 ov), 4-155 (Parvinder Singh, 39.5 ov), 5-161 (Naman Ojha, 41.6 ov), 6-184 (Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 51.5 ov), 7-232 (Piyush Chawla, 61.1 ov), 8-232 (Murali Kartik, 61.3 ov), 9-255 (Mohammad Kaif, 67.4 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	NB
Lakshmipathy Balaji	5	1	17	0	3.40	-	-	-	0
Sreesanth	11	1	43	0	3.90	-	-	-	4
Robin Uthappa	8.4	1	26	3	3.00	-	-	-	0
Ravichandran Ashwin	23	1	77	0	3.34	-	-	-	1
Marripuri Suresh	20	1	84	6	4.20	-	-	-	0

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Thu, 22 Jan - day 1 - Central Zone 1st innings 30/0 (Tanmay Srivastava 13*, Shivakant Shukla 11*, 11 ov)

Fri, 23 Jan - day 2 - Central Zone 1st innings 326/9 (Murali Kartik 23*, 100.1 ov)

Sat, 24 Jan - day 3 - South Zone 2nd innings 345/6 (Dinesh Karthik 103*, Ravichandran Ashwin 4*, 88 ov)

Sun, 25 Jan - day 4 - Central Zone 2nd innings 255/9 (67.4 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

Day 1

South Zone 50 runs in 63 mins, 13.1 overs
South Zone 100 runs in 148 mins, 32.1 overs
At Lunch: South Zone 106/6 in 33 overs (KD Karthik 16*, R Ashwin 8*)
South Zone 150 runs in 188 mins, 42.4 overs
KD Karthik 50 runs in 73 mins, 58 balls, 10x4
South Zone 200 runs in 216 mins, 48.1 overs
KD Karthik 100 runs in 110 mins, 91 balls, 18x4, 1x6
South Zone 250 runs in 247 mins, 54.1 overs
KD Karthik 150 runs in 135 mins, 109 balls, 24x4, 4x6
At Tea: South Zone 294/8 in 60 overs (M Suresh 34*, L Balaji 0*)
South Zone 300 runs in 273 mins, 61 overs
M Suresh 50 runs in 116 mins, 70 balls, 7x4

Day 2

Central Zone 50 runs in 97 mins, 19.1 overs
Central Zone 100 runs in 183 mins, 37.1 overs
At Lunch: Central Zone 137/4 (M Kaif 47*, NV Ojha 18, 45 overs)
M Kaif 50 runs in 97 mins, 63 balls, 8x4, 1x6
Central Zone 150 runs in 228 mins, 51 overs
Central Zone 200 runs in 295 mins, 67 overs
At Tea: Central Zone 223/5
Central Zone 250 runs in 362 mins, 85.1 overs
NV Ojha 50 runs in 128 mins, 99 balls, 5x4
Central Zone 300 runs in 415 mins, 94.2 overs

Day 3

South Zone 50 runs in 67 mins, 15.4 overs
South Zone 100 runs in 132 mins, 30.2 overs
At Lunch: South Zone 102/3 (R Dravid 33*, AS Yadav 41*, 32 overs)
AS Yadav 50 runs in 120 mins, 89 balls, 9x4
R Dravid 50 runs in 141 mins, 102 balls, 10x4
South Zone 150 runs in 182 mins, 42.1 overs
South Zone 200 runs in 226 mins, 54.4 overs
At Tea: South Zone 240/4 (R Dravid 89*, KD Karthik 46*, 65 overs)
KD Karthik 50 runs in 62 mins, 61 balls,9x4
South Zone 250 runs in 267 mins, 66.5 overs
R Dravid 100 runs, 249 mins, 181 balls, 18x4, 1x6
South Zone 300 runs in 309 mins, 77.3 overs
KD Karthik 100 runs in 144 mins, 114 balls, 17x4

Day 4

South Zone 350 runs in 371 mins, 90.1 overs
Central Zone 50 runs in 55 mins, 15.4 overs
AT Lunch Central Zone 74/1 (SS Shukla 26*, YKT Goud 1*, 23 overs)
Central Zone 100 runs in 123 mins, 28.2 overs
Central Zone 150 runs in 162 mins, 39.4 overs
M Kaif 50 runs in 91 mins, 70 balls, 7x4
Central Zone 200 runs in 208 mins, 55.3 overs
At Tea: Central Zone 207/6 (M Kaif 65*, PP Chawla 7*, 58 overs)
Central Zone 250 runs in 255 mins, 66 overs

Match Details

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Toss	South Zone, elected to bat first
Series	Duleep Trophy
Season	2008/09
Series result	South Zone advanced
Hours of play (local time)	<b>Updates Only</b><br>09.30 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 16.30
Match days	22,23,24,25 January 2009 - day (4-day match)
Umpires	Krishna Hariharan Suresh Shastri
Match Referee	Sanjay Patil

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Central Zone Innings

Player Name		R	B
TM Srivastava	caught	44	71
SS Shukla	caught	31	75
YKT Goud	caught	10	15
M Kaif	caught	87	110
Parvinder Singh	caught	34	45
NV Ojha	caught	2	7
B Kumar	caught	7	36
PP Chawla	caught	22	30
M Kartik	caught	0	2
Pankaj Singh	not out	5	20
Extras	(b 1, lb 7, nb 5)
Total	255(9 wkts; 67.4 ovs)

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
L Balaji	5	1	17	0	3.4
S Sreesanth	11	1	43	0	3.9 (4 nb)
RV Uthappa	8.4	1	26	3	3
R Ashwin	23	1	77	0	3.34 (1 nb)
M Suresh	20	1	84	6	4.2

Wkt	Runs	Players
1st	71	Shivakant Shukla	Tanmay Srivastava
2nd	15	Yere Goud	Shivakant Shukla
3rd	12	Mohammad Kaif	Shivakant Shukla
4th	57	Mohammad Kaif	Parvinder Singh
5th	6	Mohammad Kaif	Naman Ojha
6th	23	Mohammad Kaif	Bhuvneshwar Kumar
7th	48	Mohammad Kaif	Piyush Chawla
8th	0	Murali Kartik	Mohammad Kaif
9th	23	Mohammad Kaif	Pankaj Singh

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