2:42pm: Welcome back, umpires inspected the ground and decided to call it off. Bad weather and poor ground condition finally serves up joint winners of 2013/14 season of Duleep Trophy. It's the fourth instance in the history of Duleep trophy when the title has been shared. Previous instances (West Zone / South Zone, 1963-64), (North Zone / West Zone, 1988-89), (Central Zone / West Zone, 1997-98). It's been a frustrating couple of weeks for the fans, starting from the first semi-final where winner was decided by toss of coin then. In the finals we witnessed only 10 overs in five days, not a pleasant way to end things off for a premier domestic final, yeah not in our hands! But at the same time we must acknowledge the effort made by the ground staff who worked extremely hard and tried their best to clear the water and to dry up the outfield. Thanks for following the game and for your comments. This is Kumar Chandan Duorah signing off, cheers!

North Zone and South Zone declared joint winners.

Day 5: Good morning everyone. Welcome back to our live coverage of the Duleep trophy final between North Zone and South Zone. And we continue with the same old story (Rain/wet outfield), Kochi had a morning shower and start is again delayed, rather will say the inspection. It is scheduled at 2:30pm. In other news Unmukt Chand flies back to Delhi due to dengue fever.

10:20am: Early decision coming out. VB Chandrasekhar had a talk with Shastri and Hazare and they decided to call it off for the day. Covers are still there and lot of water on it, sluggish and it's too wet that it's not going to dried up by the end of the day also. Sun is not beating hard and overcast conditions finally ends day 4 too without a ball bowled. As of now 350 overs been lost and we have a day to play. Umpires will decide the use of reserve day based on the conditions tomorrow. We are going to have a 15 minutes early start on day 5. Till then take care, bye!

9:02am: It's day 4 of the Duleep Trophy final and no good news to share with you guys. Overnight shower there in Kochi and again start is delayed to out wetfield. Umpires decided to inspect the ground at 12:00pm.

ian jones: "it seems amazing that such an important domestic match is played at a stadium, with no proper drainage system and not enough covers. Did it not occur to the authorities to bring in extra covers after what happened at last weeks match. Also one could question the choice of venue, given that the rains affect this area at this time of year"

SAHEED P P : "This is absolutely stupid things to have a four day mach in Kochi during this southwest monsoon season ! Even a long and sparse weather forecast give you rain in Kochi during this time !"

2:47pm: The outfield looks quite damp and groundsmen still on work. Hazare with Shastri and Pathak had a good look of it and decides to call it off for the day and that's stumps on Day 3 without a ball bowled.

Ratul: "I live in Kochi. Yesterday there was heavy shower in the evening for about 40 minutes and a bit of rain in the night. But it has been sunny since morning today. Yesterday as well it was sunny for the whole day. Don't know what is the ground made of."

12:30pm: Welcome back, the umpires have come out and made an inspection. They have decided to have an another look after the lunch at 2:30pm. The groundsmen are working hard to dry up the outfield, the heavy roller is on too. There was a heavy shower last evening which has affected the outfield a lot.

Day3: Good morning everyone. Welcome back to our live coverage of the third day's play. Once again the start has been delayed to wet outfield and an inspection is scheduled at 12:00pm.

Rishi Dhawan replacing Mohit Sharma. However umpire stopped him to check the light. And that's it, players are walking back to the pavilion due to bad light. Umpires decided to call it off for the day and it's stumps on day 2.

9.6

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Kaul to Aparajith, no run

length delivery, angling down the leg, Aparajith pushes it to mid-on

9.5

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Kaul to Aparajith, no run

short of a length delivery, Aparajith ducks under it

Aparajith is the new man.

9.4

Kaul to Mukund, OUT

knocked him out! good length delivery, pitched outside off and he gets that back into him. Mukund gets forward and tries to flick it through square leg, kept a bit low and he was a bit early onto it and played it all-around, went through his bat and pad and hit the middle stump

Abhinav Mukund b Kaul 7 (29b 1x4 0x6 51m) SR: 24.13

9.3

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Kaul to Mukund, no run

length delivery, angling back into him, outside edge past point

Round the wicket.

9.2

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Kaul to Mukund, no run

good length delivery, outside off, Mukund lets it go

9.1

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Kaul to Mukund, no run

good length delivery, pitched outside off and moving away too, Mukund shoulders arms

end of over 91 run

SOZ: 33/1CRR: 3.66

Chidhambaram Gautam8 (12b 2x4)

Abhinav Mukund7 (25b 1x4)

Mohit Sharma 5-2-11-1

Siddarth Kaul 4-1-13-0

8.6

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Mohit to Gautam, no run

back of a length once again, good bounce there around off stump, gets behind the line and blocks it down

8.5

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Mohit to Gautam, no run

length delivery, pitched outside off and straightens, batsman leans forward and get it to backward point

8.4

Mohit to Mukund, 1 run

back of a length, straying on the pads, worked it to deep fine leg

8.3

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Mohit to Mukund, no run

pitched it around off, Mukund gets back and shoulders arms, keeper does the rest

8.2

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Mohit to Mukund, no run

good length delivery, angling away from the batsman, Mukund leans forward and let it go

8.1

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Mohit to Mukund, no run

back of a length, outside off, blocks it to off

end of over 85 runs

SOZ: 32/1CRR: 4.00

Chidhambaram Gautam8 (10b 2x4)

Abhinav Mukund6 (21b 1x4)

Siddarth Kaul 4-1-13-0

Mohit Sharma 4-2-10-1

7.6

Kaul to Gautam, FOUR runs

fuller in length, pitched quite outside off, batsman leans forward and reaches to it, slashes hard and went over the backward point

7.5

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Kaul to Gautam, no run

good length delivery, pitched outside off and holds the line, batsman shoulders arms

7.4

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Kaul to Gautam, no run

wow! Kaul is getting some away movement, length delivery which was pitched outside off and just miss the outside edge of the batsman

7.3

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Kaul to Gautam, no run

length delivery, pitched outside off, Gautam leans forward and drives it it off

7.2

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Kaul to Gautam, no run

length delivery, pitched outside off and just moves away from him, beats the outside edge

7.1

Kaul to Mukund, 1 bye

wavered! back of a length delivery, pitched outside off and moves away too, keeper can't hold it too

end of over 74 runs • 1 wicket

SOZ: 27/1CRR: 3.85

Chidhambaram Gautam4 (5b 1x4)

Abhinav Mukund6 (20b 1x4)

Mohit Sharma 4-2-10-1

Siddarth Kaul 3-1-9-0

6.6

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Mohit to Gautam, no run

back of a length delivery, pitched outside off and moving away from the batsman, he let it go without any trouble

waseem ahmed: "Ok im confused. Everyone here at the ground just cheered that wicket for Mohit. Whats going on! Who's the home team here??"

6.5

Mohit to Gautam, FOUR runs

short of a length, down leg, goes back and pulls it behind square leg and races away to the boundary

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Match details

Nehru Stadium, Kochi
Toss	South Zone, elected to bat first
Series	Duleep Trophy
Season	2013/14
Series result	2013/14 Duleep Trophy shared
Hours of play (local time)	09.30 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 16.30
Match days	17,18,19,20,21 October 2013 - day (5-day match)
Umpires	Sanjay Hazare Suresh Shastri
TV Umpire	Pashchim Pathak
Match Referee	Vinod Mathur