Deodhar Trophy: Shivam Dube powers West to essential win, North eradicated from finals race

Riding on Shivam Dube’s counter-attacking knock (83 n.o., 78b, 3×4, 5×6) alongside fifties from Kathan Patel (63 off 85) and Harvik Desai (56 off 70), West Zone registered a convincing six-wicket win over North Zone within the spherical 4 conflict of the Deodhar Trophy at Siechem Stadium right here on Sunday.

West additionally simplified its qualification state of affairs by knocking North out of the match. Priyank Panchal’s crew will now have their sight set on a win over East Zone within the digital semifinals in spherical 5, paving their solution to the summit conflict in opposition to South Zone.

Chasing a difficult goal of 260, West suffered an already acquainted jolt within the center order, failing to face behind the stress.

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Captain Panchal and Rahul Tripathi have been despatched again by pacers Rishi Dhawan and Mayank Yadav, respectively, which left West stranded on 49 for 2 by the eleventh over.

Skipper Nitish Rana then eliminated set batter Samarth Vyas on 25 within the nineteenth over to place North in complete management.

Adding to West’s chasing woes, Himanshu Rana capitalised on the mix-up between Dube and Desai to ship the latter again with a runout. 

Nevertheless, what adopted for North was a gritty response from Dube and Patel because the duo stitched a 138-run partnership for the fifth wicket, main West to the win with seven balls in hand.

While Dube charged the spinners within the center overs, utilizing the lengthy levers to show his sheer energy by clearing fences with ease, Patel stored the tempo up with a significant knock.

Earlier within the day, North reached a combating complete after electing to bat first on a dry floor amid hot-humid situations.

Openers Abhishek Sharma and Prabhsimran Singh began cautiously earlier than the latter unleashed his free-flowing stroke-making to money in on the free deliveries, accumulating 5 boundaries within the first six overs.

While Abhishek regarded patchy, Prabhsimran did not convert a superb begin, perishing on 26 within the eighth over whereas making an attempt to clear the infield off Rajvardhan Hangargekar.

Himanshu, batting at three, began the rebuilding course of shortly, placing on a fifty-run stand for the third wicket with Abhishek. Himanshu dominated the run-scoring load earlier than Shams Mulani ended Abhishek’s sluggish 53-ball 29-run innings within the 18th over.

Himanshu then continued with skipper Nitish and scored a half-century earlier than Panchal’s punt of bringing the part-timer, Sarfaraz Khan, labored in favour of West. Sarfaraz eliminated Himanshu in his first over to finish the 49-run stand.

Mulani additional dented North’s hopes of posting a giant complete with two fast wickets. Desai’s fast glovework despatched Mandeep Singh away on 13 whereas Nitish departed on 54 because the Mumbai spinner registered spectacular figures of 10-0-29-3.

However, with Shubham Rohilla’s counter-attacking knock of 56 down the order, alongside priceless contributions from Nishant Sindhu and Rishi Dhawan, North posted a aggressive complete on board however it proved inadequate.

The scores: North Zone 259/6 in 50 overs (Himanshu Rana 54, Nitish Rana 54, Shubham Rohilla 56; Shams Mulani 3/29) misplaced to West Zone 260/4 in 48.5 overs (Harvik Desai 56, Shivam Dube 83 n.o., Kathan Patel 63 n.o.)