South beat North to clinch Chandra Tripathy tournament

South Zone bundled out North Zone for 105 and stomped to a nine-wicket victory at Vishakapatnam, clinching the Chandra Tripathy inter-zonal junior women's cricket tournament. Thatscricket.com, a sports website, reported that both teams entered the match with equal points, and according to the rules, the winner of the match would win the tournament.

North Zone began well enough, putting on 51 for the first wicket, before a devastating collapse triggered by Savitha Nirala and Kritika, both of who took 3 for 13. The only resistance North provided came from Anureeth Kaur, who scored 46.

South Zone had little trouble overhauling the total. Rashmi Shivshankar was an early casualty, but with 207 runs in her last three innings, she had done enough to establish South's stronghold on the tournament. Karuna Jain and Sindhu Ashok then scored 42 and 38, and took the team to 107 in 25.5 overs, with nine wickets to spare.

After the match, there was more to celebrate for South Zone as Shivshankar won the the best batswoman award, Kritika the best bowler and to top it all, Jain was awarded the Eve of the tournament prize. There was consolation for North Zone, though. Kaur won the best allrounder award.