Duleep Trophy Final: South Zone won the title of Duleep Trophy, defeating West Zone by 75 runs in the final
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south zone Maintaining their dominance, thrashed West Zone by 75 runs here on Sunday. duleep trophy Won the title of cricket tournament. Chasing a target of 298 runs, West Zone extended their second innings by 182 runs for five wickets on the fifth day morning and their team was dismissed for 222 runs. For South Zone, left-arm spinner Sai Kishore and fast bowler Vasuki Kaushik took four wickets each.
South Zone won the title for the 14th time
South Zone has won the Duleep Trophy title for the 14th time. With this, he also paid the revenge of the defeat he got from West Zone last year. In the final last year, West Zone defeated South Zone by 294 runs. Priyank Panchal extended his innings by 92 runs in the morning but he returned to the pavilion after adding only three runs in it. He handed a catch to wicketkeeper Ricky Bhui on the ball of fast bowler Vidwath Kaverappa. Due to this, the true hope of the West Zone ended. Kaverappa was adjudged the player of the match. Atit Seth (9) and Dharmendrasinh Jadeja (15) added 23 runs for the eighth wicket but this could only reduce the margin of defeat. Dharmendra Jadeja caught Washington Sundar in an attempt to play a long shot off Sai Kishore. After this he also dismissed Seth.
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The captain gave credit to the team for the victory
After leading South Zone to the Duleep Trophy title here on Sunday, Hanuma Vihari said that he is enjoying the captaincy at the moment. Vihari contributed 105 runs in two innings of the final. This performance will definitely strengthen the effort to return to the Indian team but at the moment he is enjoying his captaincy experience. Vihari will now play for Madhya Pradesh in the entire domestic season. He said, ‘Definitely I enjoyed the captaincy. And when you have such a team, you will definitely enjoy captaincy.
praise for bowling
Vihari praised the bowling attack of South Zone and said, ‘When you have this kind of bowling attack in your team, the pressure of captaincy is reduced. Our plan was to get them under three runs per over and the bowlers executed the plan perfectly. Excellent bowlers make the captain’s job really easy.’ He particularly praised Karnataka’s three fast bowlers Vidwath Kaverappa, Vijaykumar Vishak and Vasuki Kaushik. This trio took 16 out of 20 wickets in the West Zone.
Vihari said, ‘All the three fast bowlers of Karnataka knew the wicket very well. As I said earlier also, having such bowlers in the team who understand the situation, then this thing becomes beneficial. He said, ‘But using it well is a different thing and these three have done it with their skills.’
Vidwath Kaverappa became man of the series
Vidwath Kaverappa, who bowled wonders in the final for South Zone, became the man of the match. He took 8 wickets in the final match. Kaverappa also bowled brilliantly in the semi-finals. He took 15 wickets including semi-finals and finals. Vidwath Kaverappa has so far taken 49 wickets in 24 matches in his first class career. His best bowling figure is 8 wickets for 104 runs.
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