North champs

PANAJI, JAN 31: North Zone defeated East Zone by 44 runs to win the Deodhar Trophy one-day tournament. North, West Zone ended with three wins each and the former won the title as they had won the clash when the two met.

SCOREBOARD: North Zone: V Rathore run out 64, S Sharma c Karim b Banerjee 6, N Sidhu b Morris 80, A Sharma st Karim b Gandhi 59, M Manhas not out 56, N Chopra c Chatterjee b Gandhi 3, S Khan not out 3. Extras lb-2, w-12, nb-1: 15. Total for five wickets in 50 overs: 286. Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-131, 3-176, 4-256, 5-274.

Bowling: Banerjee 8-1-25-1, datta 7-0-34-0, Chandran 5-0-31-0, Chatterjee 10-0-60-0, Morris 10-0-65-1, Das 3-0-29-0, Rehman 3-0-13-0, Gandhi 4-0-27-2.

East Zone: S Karim c S Sharma b Chopra 65, D Gandhi b Harvinder 4, A Lahiri b A Sharma 31, R Singh c Shafiq b Chopra 40, T Rehman c Dahiya b S Sharma 22, R Morris c Harvinder b A Sharma 2, A Das c A Sharma b Sanghvi 17, J Chandran run out 0, U Chatterjee c Dahiya b Chopra 9, S Banerjee not out 25, G Datta c Shafiq b ASharma 10. Extras lb-8, w-9: 17. Total all out in 47.1 overs: 242.