Deodhar ties

RAJKOT, JANUARY 18: The selection of a dead platform for the opening match of the Deodhar Trophy between West Zone and North Zone on Wednesday could well reduce the premier one-day tournament to a meaningless batting junket. In another match, East Zone take on Central at Vadodara.

Teams
North Zone: Vikram Rathour (captain), Ajay Jadeja, Ashu Dani, Pankaj Dharmani, Virendra Sehwag, Rajiv Nayyar, Dinesh Mongia, Vijay Dahiya (wk), Amit Bhandari, Robin Singh Jr, Rahul Sanghvi, Sarandeep Singh, Jasbir Singh, Surendra Singh, Mithun Manhas. Manager: Suresh Luthra.West Zone: Nayan Mongia (captain), Wasim Jaffer, Amol Majumdar, Jatin Paranjpe, Vinod Kambli, Abhijit Kale, Sitanshu Kotak, Nilesh Modi, Hitesh Parsana, Iqbal Siddique, Paras Mhambrey, Nilesh Kulkarni, Ajit Bohite, Zaheer Khan. Manager: Ashok Mankad.
East Zone: Utpal Chatterjee (capt), Saba Karim, Javed Zaman, SS Das, Sumit Panda, Rohan Gavaskar, Sanjay Raol, RR Paridha, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Rajiv Kumar, Nikhil Haldipur, Aditya Shukla,P Mullick, Nikhilesh Rajan. Manager: Naresh Oza.
Central Zone: Gyanendra Pandey (capt), P Krishnakumar, Ashish Winston Zaidi, Devendra Bundela, Abbas Ali, Harvinder Singh Sodhi, Amay Khuresia, Sanjay Bangar, Raja Ali, Jaiprakash Yadav, Pritam Gandhe, Murli Kartik, Anshu Jain, Gagan Khoda, Manoj Mudgil, Jyoti Yadav. Manager: JS Dave.

— ENS and Agencies