Central Zone claim Deodhar Trophy

Put in by Central, South Zone made 223 losing eight wickets in their stipulated 50 overs.

Though the central zone started well with Yadav and Khoda putting up 80 runs for the opening partnership, the team was faced with some trouble before skipper Pandey displyed some brilliant stroke play to add 26 vaulable runs. Pandey was ably assisted by saurav shukla who reamined not out with 22.

Brief Score: South Zone: 223-8 (S Sriram 49, S Sharath 30, MSK Prasad 30 n.o., A Padmanabhan 26 n.o.; A Zaidi 2-25) lost to Central Zone 226-5 in 47.5 overs (JP Yadav 65, Saurav Shukla 22 n.o.; J Padmanabhan 2-39).

Calcutta: Helped by captain Vinod Kambli’s unbeaten century, West Zoneregistered their first victory of this season’s Deodhar Trophy, defeating East Zone by eight wickets. Kambli found his touch at last with an unbeaten 109 off 120 balls. Kambli’s knock included 12 boundaries and one six off Rohan Gavaskar.

Scoreboard

East Zone:

Shiv Sundar Das b Kulkarni 124, Robin Morris lbw b Wakaskar 6, Devang Gandhi c Kambli b Mhambrey 0, Rohan Gavaskar c Sugwekar b Mhambrey 13, Saba Karim c Dighe b Wakaskar 2, R Raja c Dighe b Kulkarni 16, Tariq-ur Rehman c&b Kulkarni 8, Ajoy Das b Sugwekar 17, Utpal Chatterjee not out 19, Gautam Dutta c Kambli b Kulkarni 8; Extras: (lb7, w5, nb2) 14. Total: (for 9 wkts in 50 overs) 227

Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-26, 3-49, 4-67, 5-109, 6-131, 7-179, 8-213, 9-227

Bowling: Mhambrey 10-0-49-2, Wakaskar 9-2-45-2, Kulkarni 10-0-44-4, Arothe 7-0-24-0, Sugwekar 6-0-26-1, Kotak 2-0-10-0

West Zone: Shantanu Sugwekar c Gandhi b Gavaskar 24, Sitanshu Kotak st Karim b Gandhi 44, Vinod Kambli not out 109, JacobMartin not out 37; Extras: (lb1, w13) 14. Total: (for 2 wkts in 44 overs) 228

Fall of wickets: 1-55, 2-113

Bowling: Mohanty 10-0-66-0, Morris 4-0-23-0, Dutta 6-0-26-0, Gavaskar 8-0-34-1, Das 10-0-46-0, Gandhi 6-0-32-1.