Central zone vs south zone, duleep trophy final: The title of Dalip Trophy 2025 organized by BCCI was won by Central Zone. In the final match, the Central Zone achieved this feat by defeating South Zone by 6 wickets. Captain Rajat Patidar, who won the title to Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL, also made the Central Zone champion in the Dalip Trophy. With this victory, the Central Zone won the title of Dalip Trophy after 10 years.

The final match of the Duleep Trophy was played by the BCCI Center of Excellence in Bangalore. South Zone collapsed for 149 runs in the first innings. After that the Central Zone scored a score of 511 runs batting brilliantly in the first innings. On the basis of the first innings, the Central Zone took a lead of 362 runs. However, in the second innings, the batsmen of South Zone made a comeback and scored 426 runs. The second innings South Zone defer the innings defeat and gave the target of 65 runs to the Central Zone. Which the Central Zone won the match by losing 3 wickets.

First innings

The Central Zone won the toss and decided to bowl first. This decision was proved right by the bowlers of the Central Zone. South Zone was piled on 149 runs. For South Zone, Tanmay Aggarwal scored 31, Salman Nizar 24, Ankit Sharma 20, Ricky also scored 15 runs. Summary Jain took 5 wickets for the Central Zone. Apart from the same summary, Kumar Karthikeya took 4 wickets and broke the back of South Zone batsmen.

The same innings scored 511 runs by Central Zone. In which captain Rajat Patidar scored 101 runs. Apart from him, Yash Rathore scored 194 runs. Yash missed the volume by 6 runs from a double century. Apart from these two, Summary Jain scored 69 runs, Deepak Chahar 37, Danish Malewar 53 and Akshay Wadkar scored 22 runs. For the South Zone, Ankit Sharma took 4 wickets, Gurjapneet Singh took 4 wickets.

Second innings

In the second innings, South Zone scored 426 runs in a brilliant performance. In the second innings for South Zone, Ankit Sharma scored 99, Andre Siddharth scored an unbeaten 84 runs. Apart from these two, Samman Ravichandran scored 67, Ricky Bhui 45, Mohit Kale 38, Tanmay Aggarwal 26 and Mohammad Azharuddin scored 27 runs. Kumar Karthikeya took 4 wickets for the Central Zone. Apart from this, Summary Jain took 3, Deepak Chahar took 1 and Kuldeep Sen took 1 wickets.

Danish Male returned to the pavilion for only 5 runs

Chasing a target of 65 runs Central zone The beginning was not very good. Danish Malewar was dismissed for 5 runs. After that Shubham Sharma also returned to the pavilion after scoring 8 runs. After that, the summary was sent up to Jain but he also scored 4 runs. Silver As the Central Zone suffered a fourth blow. Rajat Patidar was dismissed after scoring 13 runs. Akshay Wadkar remained unbeaten after scoring 19 runs. The same Yash Rathore won the match by scoring an unbeaten 11. Ankit Sharma got 2 wickets and Gurjapneet Singh got 2 wickets for the South Zone.