Duleep Trophy 2025 Final Round: All Scores from Day 5

On the fourth day of the final of the Duleep Trophy 2025 at the BCCI Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru, the South Zone were so much behind in the game before they turned the tables with an inspiring batting performance. Their batting in the first innings was incredibly poor. However, a little better performance would have been better in this clash.

In the second innings, Smaran Ravichandran drilled 67 runs at the number three position. But the biggest turnaround of the innings came through the 192-run stand for the seventh wicket between Andre Siddarth C and Ankit Kumar, who couldn’t celebrate his century and was dismissed for 99 runs with the help of 13 boundaries and one six.

Andre remained undefeated for 84 runs in 190 balls with the help of seven boundaries at a strike rate of 44.21. But again, they lost their last four wickets for just 12 runs and were bundled out for 426 in the innings to grab a short lead of 65 runs.

Duleep Trophy 2025 Final Round: All Scores from Day 5

On the fifth and final day of the encounter, Ankit sent back opener Danish Malewar for five runs with a peach of a delivery before Gurjapneet Singh added two wickets in three wickets in the ninth over of the fourth innings. Shubham Sharma was caught by the wicket-keeper before Saransh Jain went back to the hut for four runs.

Central Zone’s captain, Rajat Patidar, returned for 13 runs. But the target was too small to pose a threat for the batting side as Yash Rathod, fresh from his 194 in the first innings, drilled V Koushik for a four through cover-point to seal the deal.

VVS Laxman presents the coveted trophy to Patidar as the teammates joined him for the celebrations. Central Zone is the new champion of the Duleep Trophy in the 2025 edition.

Duleep Trophy 2025 Final Round: All Scores from Day 5

Central Zone- 66/4 (Akshay Wadkar 19*, Gurjapneet Singh 2/21) & 511 (Yash Rathod 194, Rajat Patidar 101, Gurjapneet Singh 4/124 beat South Zone- 426 (Ankit Sharma 99, Andre Siddarth 84*, Kumar Kartikeya 4/110, Saransh Jain 3/130) & 149/10 (Tanmay Agarwal 31, Salman Nazir 24, Saransh Jain 5/49, Kumar Kartikeya 4/53) by six wickets.