On the opening day of the semifinal round in the Duleep Trophy 2025, South Zone enjoyed a fine time with the bat thanks to the unbeaten 148-run knock from Narayan Jagadeesan and a half-century from Devdutt Padikkal. On the other hand, West Zone smashed 363/6 with Ruturaj Gaikwad clubbing 184 against Central Zone at the two grounds of the BCCI Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru. 

South Zone stretched their fantastic batting from the opening day and got bundled out for 536 runs in 169.2 overs to end the second day’s play. Narayan Jagadeesan extended their knock of 197 runs in 352 balls with the help of 16 boundaries and a couple of sixes before getting run out.

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Ricky Bhui celebrated a fine half-century and ended with 54 runs in 131 balls, thanks to three boundaries and two sixes. At number three, Tanay Thyagarajan drilled 58 runs in 116 balls, shouldering on four boundaries as they got bundled out for 536. Nishant Sindhu, who had a long bowling of 47.2 overs, picked up five wickets in the innings.  

Duleep Trophy 2025 Semifinal Round: All Scores from Day 2

West Zone, on the other hand, ended with 438 runs in the first innings. It was a fabulous batting show from them after being reduced to 10/2 in the fourth over. Tanush Kotian ended with 76 runs in 166 balls at a strike rate of 45.68 with six boundaries.

Captain of the West Zone, the pace bowling all-rounder, Shardul Thalur, creamed 64 runs in 98 balls to take them to 438 runs in 108 overs. In reply, Central Zone displayed a great batting show with 229/2 with all of the batsmen crossing the 40-run mark. Danish Malewar ended with 76 runs while Shubham Sharma remained unbeaten on 60 runs in 148 balls. They still trail by 209 runs in the second innings of the fixture.

Duleep Trophy 2025 semifinal Round: All Scores from Day 2

South Zone- 536/10 (Narayan Jagadeesan 197, Tanay Thyagarajan 58, Ricky Bhu 54, Nishant Sindhu 5/125) against North Zone

Central Zone- 229/2 (Danish Malewar 76, Shubham Sharma 60*, Arzan Nagwaswalla 1/15) trail West Zone 438/10 (Ruturaj Gaikwad 184, Tanush Kotian 76, Shardul Thakur 64, Saransh Jain 3/121) by 209 runs.