Deodhar Trophy: Mayank, Sai Kishore shine as South Zone beats West Zone

It was the conflict of the 2 best sides of the Deodhar Trophy, and the match lived as much as its billing by way of pleasure as South Zone pulled off a heist beating West Zone by 12 runs on the Cricket Association of Puducherry floor on Wednesday.

Asked to bat first, South Zone was bundled out for simply 206, with solely skipper Mayank Agarwal waging a lone battle making a well-constructed 98 (115b, 9×4).

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The Karnataka batter was dropped when he was on seven by Parth Bhut at backward level and made the opponents pay for his or her folly.

Agarwal milked the bowling assault sensibly and confirmed play risk-free cricket, scoring simply 9 boundaries at the same time as he noticed his teammates expend their wickets with poor photographs.

But the opener would rue how he obtained out and missed out on a century, needlessly making an attempt to reverse-sweep Bhut (3/25) solely to hit it straight to the backward level fielder.

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Defending a modest goal, South Zone bowlers fought tooth and nail and pulled off an inconceivable victory, with Sai Kishore (3/44) scalping three wickets.

However, it was the Karnataka pacers who set it up initially when V. Koushik castled Harvik Desai whereas V. Kaverappa obtained Rahul Tripathi leg-before as West slumped to 26 for 3.

The big-hitting Sarfaraz (42) began slowly however obtained West again into the sport as he took on the South bowlers. He started by lofting Vyshak for a six down the bottom earlier than upper-cutting the pacer over the keeper in the identical over.

He then smashed Sai Kishore for a number of boundaries. But simply when he threatened to take the sport away, Vyshak had the batter caught behind down the leg-side.

Atit Sheth (40) and Shivam Dube performed sensibly and stitched a 65-run stand for the sixth wicket wherein the previous was the enforcer. But a second of indiscretion from Dube price his wicket as he top-edged making an attempt to slog sweep Sai Kishore.

It was the opening South was ready for as Washington Sundar (2/34) then eliminated Sheth – trapped leg-before with a faster one – earlier than cleansing up Sham Mulani in fast succession. Sai Kishore then accomplished the job taking the final two wickets as West dedicated the cardinal sin of being bowled out with greater than 13 overs left when victory was close by.

The scores:

South Zone 206 in 46.4 overs (Mayank Agarwal 98, Parth Bhut 3/25) bt West Zone 194 in 36.4 overs (Sarfaraz Khan 42, Atit Sheth 40, Sai Kishore 3/44).