On Sunday, both the semi -finals of the Dalip Trophy were drawn. In fact, after Gurjapneet Singh and MD Nidhish, South Zone has made it to the final against the North Zone with a big lead on the basis of Narayan Jagadishan’s best performance. His 6 batsmen played half -century innings. This includes Shubham Sharma (96), Danish Malevar (76), Captain Rajat Patidar (77), Upendra Yadav (87), Harsh Dubey (75) and Summary Jain (63). The South Zone, captained by Mohammad Azharuddin, will face the title from the Central Zone led by Silver Patidar from September 11.
On the fourth day of the semi -finals, North Zone started playing ahead of yesterday’s five wickets by 278 runs. In the morning session, Vasuki Kaushik bowled the century Shubham Khajuria and gave the sixth blow to the North Zone. After this, MD Nidhish bowled Sahil Luthra and Mayank Dagar and sent them to the pavilion. Yudhveer Singh Charak was hunted by Tanay Tyagarajan. Gurjapneet Singh ended the innings of North Zone at a score of 361 in 100.1 overs to Aqib Nabi (10).
At the same time, the South Zone, who came out to bat in the second innings, did not start well and lost the wicket of opener Tanmay Aggarwal on a score of 34. After this, Devdutt Padikkal, who came to bat, handled the innings with Narayan Jagadishan. The two batsmen had a 61 -run partnership of 61 runs. During this, Jagadishan completed his half -century. The two teams agreed to draw in the two teams after South Zone scored a score of 95 for one wicket in 24.1 overs. Jagadishan scored an unbeaten innings of 52 runs in 69 balls with the help of 6 fours. Devdutt Padikkal returned unbeaten after scoring 15 runs.