NEW DELHI: The West Zone on Saturday entered the Duleep Trophy ultimate courtesy an important first innings lead after their semifinal conflict towards Central Zone led to a attract Alur.
Chasing an inconceivable 399 for victory, Central have been 128 for 4 when rain arrived at tea, forcing an early finish to the competition on the KSCA Oval.
The West will now face both South Zone or North Zone within the ultimate which will likely be held on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium from July 12.
West, maybe, might have gone looking for the remaining six wickets had the climate remained clear. But ultimately West weren’t in want of that as a result of they’d a 98-run first innings lead within the financial institution to garner a beneficial outcome.
Starting the fourth and ultimate day from 292 for 9, West Zone might add solely 5 extra runs earlier than getting bowled out.
Openers Vivek Singh and Himanshu Mantri returned to the hut with out providing a lot struggle, decreasing Central to 17 for two.
Dhruv Jurel began off nicely within the firm of Amandeep Khare however left-arm spinner Dharmendra Jadeja had him stumped by Het Patel as Central additional slipped to 55 for 3.
Rinku Singh supplied some synthetic pleasure to the proceedings, slamming a 30-ball 40. Rinku put the West bowlers by way of the wringer within the final hour earlier than lunch.
Target was bordering on not possible alright, however Rinku, who had hammered 5 sixes for Kolkata Knight Riders towards Yash Dayal of Gujarat Titans in IPL 2023, would have none of it.
Jadeja suffered the brunt of his aggression, getting hammered for 2 sixes and certainly one of them even landed within the KSCA (2) grounds.
But then such targets within the longer format is method past a one man present.
Chasing an inconceivable 399 for victory, Central have been 128 for 4 when rain arrived at tea, forcing an early finish to the competition on the KSCA Oval.
The West will now face both South Zone or North Zone within the ultimate which will likely be held on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium from July 12.
West, maybe, might have gone looking for the remaining six wickets had the climate remained clear. But ultimately West weren’t in want of that as a result of they’d a 98-run first innings lead within the financial institution to garner a beneficial outcome.
Starting the fourth and ultimate day from 292 for 9, West Zone might add solely 5 extra runs earlier than getting bowled out.
Openers Vivek Singh and Himanshu Mantri returned to the hut with out providing a lot struggle, decreasing Central to 17 for two.
Dhruv Jurel began off nicely within the firm of Amandeep Khare however left-arm spinner Dharmendra Jadeja had him stumped by Het Patel as Central additional slipped to 55 for 3.
Rinku Singh supplied some synthetic pleasure to the proceedings, slamming a 30-ball 40. Rinku put the West bowlers by way of the wringer within the final hour earlier than lunch.
Target was bordering on not possible alright, however Rinku, who had hammered 5 sixes for Kolkata Knight Riders towards Yash Dayal of Gujarat Titans in IPL 2023, would have none of it.
Jadeja suffered the brunt of his aggression, getting hammered for 2 sixes and certainly one of them even landed within the KSCA (2) grounds.
But then such targets within the longer format is method past a one man present.
The left-hander from Uttar Pradesh holed out to Arzan Nagwaswalla within the deep to convey curtains to the leisure.
(With inputs from PTI)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com