Central Zone need 65 runs to win the Duleep Trophy after bowling out South Zone for 426 on Day Four, despite a resilient 192-run partnership between Ankit Sharma and Andre Siddarth
Central Zone advances to the 2025/26 Duleep Trophy final after taking a first-innings lead against West Zone, thanks to a dominant total of 600 and excellent performances from Saransh Jain and Harsh Dubey
Tilak Varma will captain South Zone in the upcoming Duleep Trophy. Tanmay Agarwal and Tanay Thyagarajan are the other Hyderabad cricketers included in the 16-member squad for the championship
The BCCI Apex Council met in Hyderabad, announcing umpiring reforms, new domestic season structures, and a committee to draft safety guidelines after Bengaluru’s tragedy. Domestic tournaments will now include Super League stages and revised group formats
While Nishant Sandhu comes in as a replacement for Axar in India D squad, Tushar Deshpande ruled out of game due to a niggle and his place will be taken by India A's Vidwath Kaverappa
The Duleep Trophy gradually lost its importance and the very essence of what it stood for diminished expeditiously. The battle between the four irrelevant sides of nearly 60 players playing the Duleep Trophy is like a cricket trial that one had to undergo to unearth and identify prospective cricketers at the initial level.
South Zone pacers were brilliantly bellicose while reducing West Zone to 129 for 7 and help their team regain some of the lost ground on the second day
West Zone thrashed South Zone by 294 runs to win the 2022 Duleep Trophy here on Sunday, completing the formalities before lunch on the fifth and last day's play.
Ricky Bhui made an unbeaten 103 while Baba Aparajith hit a half-century as South Zone posted a massive first innings total of 630 for eight before declaring