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Scorecard Summary
WEST ZONE 281/3 (50 OVERS)
- Cheteshwar Pujara75 (114)
- Kedar Devdhar94 (101)
- Ashish Nehra1/49 (10)
- Rishi Dhawan2/46 (11)
NORTH ZONE 148 (37.1 OVERS)
- Nitin Saini32 (27)
- Mandeep Singh37 (66)
- Arpit Vasavada3/20 (6.1)
- Axar Patel2/23 (8)
Hatrick of wins for West Zone as they beat North Zone quite comprehensively to lift the trophy. Spinners Vasavada and Patel were the pick of the bowlers as they shared 5 wickets among them. The rot started very early in the chase, loosing Gambhir and they never got up since then. And that concludes our coverage of this match and the series. This is Thilak and Chandan signing off, take care, cheers!
I Sharma c Pathan b Vasavada 8 (17b 0x4 0x6) SR: 47.05
END OF OVER:37 | 1 Run | NOZ: 148/9 (134 runs required from 13 overs, RR: 4.00, RRR: 10.30)
- Siddarth Kaul0 (5b)
- Ishant Sharma8 (16b)
- Axar Patel8-0-23-2
- Arpit Vasavada6-0-20-2
Deodhar Trophy News
Dinda, Manoj Tiwary power East Zone to title
For the second time in three days, the exciting nature of one-day cricket was brought to the fore, as East Zone ended their decade-long drought of winning the Deodhar Trophy with a nail-biting victory against defending champions West Zone at the Wankhede
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Akshar, Suryakumar power West Zone into final
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Tiwary owes consistency to maturity
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