SZ vs CZ Full Scorecard, Duleep Trophy 2025 Updates

Final • BCCI Centre of Excellence Ground • Bengaluru

South Zone

149 & 426/10 (121)

Central Zone

511 & 66/4 (20.3)

CZ won by 6 wickets

Info

Live

Scorecard

Playing XI

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Date & Time

11 Sep, 09:30 AM IST

Venue

BCCI Centre of Excellence Ground, Bengaluru

Match

Final,

Duleep Trophy 2025

Umpires

Jayaraman Madanagopal(India), Mohit Krishnadas (India), KN Ananthapadmanabhan (India, TV)

Referee

Daniel Manohar (India)

Toss

Central Zone elected to bowl

Pitch Report

The game seems to be done and dusted as the writing seems to be on the wall. The wicket has a fair bit for the spinners. It can hurt the batters but that 192 run stand shows that there is enough in it for the batters as well. With just 65 runs to win there doesn't seem to be any uncertainty. The only question is how long does it take the Central Zone to get it done.

1st Innings

478Avg Runs

9Avg Wkts

67.38Avg SR

2nd Innings

344Avg Runs

10Avg Wkts

58.75Avg SR

3rd Innings

325Avg Runs

5Avg Wkts

71.04Avg SR

4th Innings

200Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

57.47Avg SR

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Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

SZ

0- 0

CZ

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

South Zone

D

W

W

L

W

Central Zone

D

D

D

W

L

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Danish Malewar

CZ . BAT

294 Runs

2 Matches

Rajat Patidar

CZ . BAT

268 Runs

2 Matches

Shubham Sharma

CZ . BAT

252 Runs

2 Matches

Top Bowlers

Saransh Jain

CZ . ALL

8 Wkts

1 Match

Aditya Thakare

CZ . BOWL

5 Wkts

1 Match

Gurjapneet Singh

SZ . BOWL

4 Wkts

1 Match

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Player of the Match Yash Rathod

194(286) & 13(16)

SZ 1st

CZ 1st

SZ 2nd

CZ 2nd

Info

South Zone 1st Innings

149/10 (63)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

31

76

3

0

40.79

runout (Wadkar / Malewar)

9

50

0

0

18.00

b Kartikeya

1

19

0

0

5.26

c Jain b Kartikeya

15

53

2

0

28.30

lbw b Jain

Mohammed Azharuddeen

(C)

4

9

0

0

44.44

b Kartikeya

24

52

2

1

46.15

c Patidar b Jain

12

19

1

0

63.16

st Yadav b Jain

20

64

2

0

31.25

lbw b Jain

Gurjapneet Singh

2

13

0

0

15.38

lbw b Kartikeya

12

13

1

0

92.31

c & b Jain

2

13

0

0

15.38

Not out

Extras

17

(B: 8, LB: 6, NB: 3, W: 0)

TOTAL

(63 Ov, RR: 2.37)

149/10

11

1

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

6

1

11

0

1.83

0

4

2

7

0

1.75

0

8

3

15

0

1.88

2

Kumar Kartikeya

21

1

53

4

2.52

1

24

2

49

5

2.04

0

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

b Kartikeya

1-27

15.6

c Jain b Kartikeya

2-35

21.2

runout (Wadkar / Malewar)

3-47

25.5

Mohammed Azharuddeen

b Kartikeya

4-57

29.6

lbw b Jain

5-65

36.2

st Yadav b Jain

6-97

42.6

c Patidar b Jain

7-116

48.3

Gurjapneet Singh

lbw b Kartikeya

8-129

53.1

c & b Jain

9-142

56.5

lbw b Jain

10-149

62.6

Central Zone 1st Innings

511/10 (145.1)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

Danish Malewar

53

120

5

0

44.17

c Bhui b Singh

22

60

3

0

36.67

b Koushik

Shubham Sharma

6

18

1

0

33.33

b Singh

(C)

101

115

12

2

87.83

c Mohammed Azharuddeen b Singh

194

286

17

2

67.83

b Singh

5

10

0

0

50.00

c Mohammed Azharuddeen b Nidheesh

69

193

7

0

35.75

b Sharma

37

49

3

2

75.51

c Mohammed Azharuddeen b Sharma

Kumar Kartikeya

8

12

1

0

66.67

c & b Sharma

1

7

0

0

14.29

c (sub Thyagarajan) b Sharma

1

7

0

0

14.29

Not out

Extras

14

(B: 0, LB: 7, NB: 6, W: 1)

TOTAL

(145.1 Ov, RR: 3.52)

511/10

49

6

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

Gurjapneet Singh

28

2

124

4

4.43

2

44.1

5

180

4

4.08

4

19

4

43

1

2.26

0

28

6

64

1

2.29

1

26

2

93

0

3.58

0

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

b Koushik

1-55

22.5

Shubham Sharma

b Singh

2-74

29.6

Danish Malewar

c Bhui b Singh

3-93

33.4

c Mohammed Azharuddeen b Singh

4-260

67.1

c Mohammed Azharuddeen b Nidheesh

5-266

69.2

b Sharma

6-442

127.5

b Singh

7-500

140.4

c Mohammed Azharuddeen b Sharma

8-500

141.1

Kumar Kartikeya

c & b Sharma

9-509

143.5

c (sub Thyagarajan) b Sharma

10-511

145.1

South Zone 2nd Innings

426/10 (121)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

26

42

2

0

61.90

b Sen

38

61

7

0

62.30

lbw b Jain

67

118

7

1

56.78

c Rathod b Kartikeya

45

85

4

2

52.94

c Sharma b Chahar

Mohammed Azharuddeen

(C)

27

40

2

1

67.50

c Sen b Kartikeya

12

17

2

0

70.59

c Patidar b Kartikeya

84

190

7

0

44.21

Not out

99

168

13

1

58.93

c Patidar b Kartikeya

Gurjapneet Singh

3

6

0

0

50.00

c Malewar b Jain

0

1

0

0

0.00

runout (Patidar)

0

6

0

0

0.00

st Yadav b Jain

Extras

25

(B: 2, LB: 7, NB: 8, W: 8)

TOTAL

(121 Ov, RR: 3.52)

426/10

44

5

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

16

2

74

1

4.63

6

8

2

22

0

2.75

1

Kumar Kartikeya

39

3

110

4

2.82

0

42

8

130

3

3.10

0

12

1

60

1

5.00

5

Shubham Sharma

4

1

21

0

5.25

0

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

lbw b Jain

1-62

15.6

b Sen

2-76

18.1

c Sharma b Chahar

3-161

42.1

Mohammed Azharuddeen

c Sen b Kartikeya

4-200

53.5

c Patidar b Kartikeya

5-221

58.5

c Rathod b Kartikeya

6-222

60.3

c Patidar b Kartikeya

7-414

115.3

Gurjapneet Singh

c Malewar b Jain

8-419

116.5

runout (Patidar)

9-420

118.6

st Yadav b Jain

10-426

120.6

Central Zone 2nd Innings

66/4 (20.3)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

Danish Malewar

5

12

0

0

41.67

c Mohammed Azharuddeen b Sharma

19

52

3

0

36.54

Not out

Shubham Sharma

8

14

2

0

57.14

c Mohammed Azharuddeen b Singh

4

2

1

0

200.00

c Siddarth b Singh

(C)

13

27

2

0

48.15

c Nidheesh b Sharma

13

16

1

0

81.25

Not out

Extras

4

(B: 0, LB: 4, NB: 0, W: 0)

TOTAL

(20.3 Ov, RR: 3.22)

66/4

9

0

Did not Bat

Upendra Yadav, Deepak Chahar, Aditya Thakare, Kuldeep Sen, Kumar Kartikeya

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

Gurjapneet Singh

6

2

21

2

3.50

0

10

2

22

2

2.20

0

4.3

0

19

0

4.22

0

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Danish Malewar

c Mohammed Azharuddeen b Sharma

1-11

3.6

Shubham Sharma

c Mohammed Azharuddeen b Singh

2-20

8.3

c Siddarth b Singh

3-24

8.5

c Nidheesh b Sharma

4-49

15.5

Match Info

Date & Time

11 Sep, 09:30 AM IST

Venue

BCCI Centre of Excellence Ground, Bengaluru

Match

Final,

Duleep Trophy 2025

Umpires

Jayaraman Madanagopal(India), Mohit Krishnadas (India), KN Ananthapadmanabhan (India, TV)

Referee

Daniel Manohar (India)

Toss

Central Zone elected to bowl

2 0 0 0 0 1

Over 18

Runs: 3

0 2 1 0 0 0

Over 19

Runs: 3

0 0 1 0 0 0

Over 20

Runs: 1

2 0 4

Over 21

Runs: 6

All Overs

Player of the Match Yash Rathod

194(286) & 13(16)

Commentary

Right, that brings to a close the Duleep Trophy 2025. Central Zone have clinched this title after a long period 10 years. They've got a fantastic group of players who deserved to be crowned champions. Spare of thought for South Zone, who fought hard in the last few days to drag the game till the final day but couldn't get over the line in the end. For now, it will be Soumarya Dutta taking your leave on behalf of Sportskeeda. See you soon.

Rajat Patidar collects the trophy from VVS Laxman. The Central Zone players deserve every bit of that applause. The celebrations will begin and this lot of players will remember this moment for a long time to come.

Rajat Patidar (Central Zone captain): (Winning trophies becoming a habit) Every captain likes winning trophies. I would say I am a bit lucky because the players have shown a lot of character. The track was completely flat, yet the bowlers dominated and made life easier for us. (On the toss decision) This wicket was slightly dry so we decided to bowl. If we bowled them out in the first innings as early as possible - that was our aim and it made things easier. We predicted that it would help the fast-bowlers but I had to give one spinner an over to see how it was behaving. It helped the spinners more. I enjoyed a lot of Yash and especially Danish also, the way he has batted and timed the ball in the last game too. Very happy for him. We've played a lot of matches together, Kartikeya and Saransh. They have a lot of skill and are very difficult to play on these tracks.

Mohammed Azharuddeen (South Zone captain): Hopefully we can learn from this and it's not the end of the world. We will get better with the season. Their spinners were getting a lot of turn and hitting some good lines. Things could have been better if we had played with one more spinner. There is no pinpointing as we played as a team. We have lost as a team. We're experienced players and we fought really hard till the end.

Saransh Jain is declared the Player of the Tournament for tallying 136 runs and bagging 16 wickets. Here's what he has to say: I was pleased with both my batting and bowling but more with my bowling since the wicket for the final was good. To take a five-fer there was special. In today's generation you can't play as a bowler alone. You have to contribute as a batter too. Our plan was to bowl our stock ball in one spot as much as possible. There was something in the wicket. We planned and executed well. (On bowling over and around the wicket) When you bowl from one angle it becomes easy for the batter. If you change the angle it becomes confusing for the batter. If you deceive the batter in the air with the red ball, you are a premium spinner.

Danish Malewar wins the Super Striker of the Series award for scoring 56 fours throughout Duleep Trophy 2025!

Yash Rathod is the Player of the Match for his sensational 194 in the first innings!

Time for the presentation!

Match Summary

South Zone 149 all out (First innings) and 426 all out (Second Innings)
Central Zone 511 all out(First Innings) and 66/4 (Second Innings)

Session Summary - Overs 20.3 | Runs 66 | Wickets 4 | RPO 3.25

Central Zone have clinched the Duleep Trophy for the seventh time in the tournaments history and this has been a brilliant performance from them. They needed just 65 runs to win this morning and they got there inside 21 overs as Yash Rathod and Akshay Wadkar saw them home. South Zone continued with their incredible fight which they began on day 4 and made life difficult for the batters with the ball as they picked up four wickets but with just 65 as the target, it was never going to be enough.

Danish Malewar was dismissed by Ankit Sharma who got some really sharp turn and bounce today. Shubham Sharma and Saransh Jain looked to be aggressive but they were dismissed by Gurjapneet Singh who bowled a menacing spell today morning. Skipper Rajat Patidar came in and showed some good discipline against the spinners. He smashed Sharma for a few boundaries but eventually fell prey as he mistimed a slog sweep.

South Zone would be kicking themselves for that disastrous first innings. Even if they had got a bit more than 200 runs, this match could have been a nail biting thriller as we saw the batting conditions deteriorate badly. Ankit Sharma got a lot of turn in the second innings and even the lack of a second spinner cost them big time. Overall, their selections for this game should also be questioned big time as should be the performance with the bat and ball in the first innings which made all the difference. Spare of thought for Ankit Sharma and Andre Siddharth who kept them in the game but they had far too much to do.

How fitting that the man who set up this win in the first innings has the final say! Central Zone are champions of the Duleep Trophy - deservingly so after a thoroughly dominant performance!

21.0

20.3 V Koushik to Yash Rathod, FOURRR! CENTRAL ZONE CLINCH THE DULEEP TROPHY AFTER 11 YEARS and they win it by 6 wickets! It was short and wide outside off stump. Rathod got on top of the bounce and punched it away past the backward point region for a boundary.

20.2 V Koushik to Yash Rathod, too full and outside off. Rathod comes down the track and pushes it towards the cover region. No run.

20.1 V Koushik to Yash Rathod, too full and bowled in the corridor outside off stump. Rathod presses and drives it towards the point region for a couple of runs.

20

overs

60 /4 score

0

0

1

0

0

0

runs

Akshay Wadkar *

19 (52)

Yash Rathod

7 (13)

Ankit Sharma

2 /22

19.6 Ankit Sharma to Akshay Wadkar, flatter and bowled outside the line of off stump. Wadkar let's that one go.

19.4 Ankit Sharma to Akshay Wadkar, flatter and bowled outside the line of off stump. Wadkar tries to defend inside the line but is beaten for turn and pace.

19.3 Ankit Sharma to Akshay Wadkar, tossed up and outside the line of off stump. Wadkar presses and drives it towards the extra cover region. No run.

19.3 Ankit Sharma to Yash Rathod, fuller and bowled outside the line of off stump. Rathod flicks it away through the mid wicket region for a single.

19.2 Ankit Sharma to Yash Rathod, flatter and bowled at the stumps. Rathod hangs back and keeps that one out.