South Zone beat Central Zone in thriller

South Zone beat Central Zone by three runs in a last-over thriller in the Vijay Hazare (under-16) Trophy tournament at the KL Saini Stadium at Jaipur on Tuesday.

Replying to South Zone's total of 198 for 7 in 50 overs, Central were all out for 195 in the last over of the match. Central Zone lost wickets at regular intervals and were 82 for five. Dixit (29 off 54 balls) was involved in a partnership of 34 for the sixth wicket with Afroz Khan (18 off 36 balls). This was followed by a 35 run partnership off nine overs for the seventh wicket between Dixit and SK Upadhyay (52 not out off 60 balls). A last wicket partnership of 29 runs from five overs between SK Upadhyay and Chaudhery (3) proved in vain.

Earlier South Zone won the toss and elected to bat. They lost three wickets for 57 before they recovered with the only partnership of note when Aditya Srikkanth (50 off 80 balls) and Abhinav Kumar (59 off 89 balls) added 117 runs for the fourth wicket off 26 overs.

With this, Central Zone ended their fixtures with two wins and two losses from their four games while this was South Zone's first victory in three matches.