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West, North in summit clash

CALCUTTA, DEC 13: West zone romped into the final by virtue of their first innings lead as their Duleep Trophy semi-final match against Ea...

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CALCUTTA, DEC 13: West zone romped into the final by virtue of their first innings lead as their Duleep Trophy semi-final match against East Zone ended in a draw at the Eden Gardens here on Monday.

Resuming at 174 for one on the concluding day, West rode on a sedate 105 by Abhijit Kale before declaring their innings at 260 for three. Faced with an impossible target of scoring 606 runs in 65 overs, East scored at a brisk pace, helped by a rollicking 185-run first wicket partnership between Shiv Sundar Das (110) and Nikhil Haldipur (79) to reach 249 for three.

Scoreboard

West Zone (1st innings): 600-8 decl
East Zone (1st innings) 255
West Zone (2nd innings): Wasim Jaffer b Chatterjee 94, Connor Williams b Satpathi 41, Abhijit Kale b Das 105, Amol Muzumdar not out 13. Extras (lb 2, w 2, nb 3): 7. Total (for three wickets declared): 260
Fall of wickets: 1-71, 2-241, 3-260
Bowling: Zaman 9-3-13-0, Barik 6-1-22-0, Chatterjee 26-7-56-1, Satpathi20-3-65-1, Sukwinder 12-3-45-0, Gavaskar 13-3-30-0, Haldipur 6-1-14-0, Rehman 6-0-13-0, Das 0.1-0-0-1

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East Zone (2nd innings): Shiv Shankar Das c Muzumdar b Kulkarni 110, Nikhil Haldipur c Kulkarni b Kambli 79, Rohan Gavaskar c Siddique b Kulkarni 17, CR Parida not out 27, Saba Karim not out 13. Extras (w 1, nb 1): 2. Total (for three wickets): 249
Fall of wickets: 1-185, 2-201, 3-214
Bowling: Mhambrey 8-0-27-0, Zaheer Khan 8-0-46-0, Kulkarni 17-1-75-2, Siddique 4-0-23-0, Mehta 12-1-37-0, Kambli 5-0-30-1, Muzumdar 3-0-7-0, Jaffer 1-1-0-0, Kale 1-0-4-0

Central bow out
GUWAHATI:
North Zone stormed into the final for the 19th time by virtue of their first innings lead of 177 runs against defending champions Central Zone as their semi-final ended in a draw today. North take on West in the final at Calcutta from Dec 17-21.

Scoreboard

North Zone (1st innings): 543
Central Zone (1st innings): Sanjay Bangar b Robin Jr 0, Jyoti Yadav cDharmani b Sodhi 70, Abbas Ali c Rathore b Robin Jr 31, Manoj Mudgal lbw Sodhi 27, Raja Ali c Mongia b Navdip Singh 123, Gyanendra Pandey c Sodhi b Chopra 2, Saurav Shukla c Dharmani b Robin Jr 7, Md Saif lbw Mongia 35, Preetam Gandhe b Robin Jr 18, Ashish Zaidi c Dharmani b Robin Jr 21, Narendra Hirwani not out 13; Extras: (lb 11, b 2, nb 5, w 1) 19. Total: (all out in 167 overs) 366
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-48, 3-111, 4-185, 5-188, 6-199, 7-290, 8-333, 9-349
Bowling: Robin Singh Jr 38-12-84-5, Shakti Singh 25-8-77-0, Chopra 36-13-56-1, Navdip Singh 36-15-57-1, Reetinder Singh Sodhi 24-11-46-2, Sehwag 4-0-14-0, Mongia 7-0-19-1

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