East Zone defeated West Zone in the 2014-15 Deodhar Trophy by 23 runs at the Wankhade Stadium, Mumbai. It was a thrilling encounter as both the teams fought hard and gave it all. The people came in good numbers to watch the exciting contest.
East Zone won the toss and elected to bat on pitch that helped the batsmen. East Zone’s innings got off to a poor start losing 2 wickets in the first few over’s thanks to a forceful bowling by Dhawal Kulkarni and Muthuswamy. Shreevats Goswami was out for 2 and Ishank Jaggi was out for 0. After losing 2 wickets Manoj Tiwary and Virat Singh steadied the innings. At the end of 10 over’s the score was just 19 runs for loss of 2 wickets. Tiwary continued from where he left in the quarter finals where he had scored a century. Virat Singh and Manoj Tiwary shared a partnership of 135 runs. Both of them got out in the space 8 runs to leave East Zone 148 for 4. Manoj Tiwary scored a well-made 75 runs and 16 year old Virat Singh scored 54 runs. The part time bowlers of Bawne and Jadhav did not allow the East Zone batsmen especially Saruabh Tiwary to hit boundaries. At the end of 40 over’s the score was 188 for 4. Then Biplab Samantary and Deborat provided the much needed momentum to the innings. Biplab Samantary scored 60 quick fire runs. At the end of 50 over’s East Zone scored 269 for 8 wickets.
West Zone inning also got off to a poor start losing Smit Patel for 4. After that West Zone lost 2 more wickets of Sheldon Jackson and Ambati Rayadu to leave them in a precarious position of 37 for3. Ashok Dinda bowled brilliantly picking all 3 wickets. Then came the partnership of Kedar Jadhav and Ankit Bawne. Jadhav played some wonderful strokes as his partner Bawne struggled to score runs initially. Bawne was out finally for 28 off 59 balls, which probably was the beginning of losing match. Kedar Jadhav continued with Suryakumar Yadav. He was dropped by Veer Pratap Singh on 68 to make a well deserving 97. Yusuf Pathan disappointed scoring 3 runs. Akshar Patel played a quick fire knock of 20 off 10 balls to put the match in balanced position. Thakur hit 10 runs off 2 balls and got out for a rash shot. Finally West zone’s captain Yadav got out for 35 in the process of hastening the scoring rate to leave West Zone 243 for 9. Ultimately West Zone was all out for 245 and East zone won the match by 24 runs. Dinda took 4 wickets for East zone.
Deodhar Trophy was overall a great tournament for those players who trying to knock door for selection for the World cup. Among those were Manoj Tiwary, Baba Aparjith Vinay Kumar and Pankaj Singh.
Scorecard:
|
Batsmen |
Mode of Dismissal |
Runs |
Balls |
4’s |
6’s |
|
|
|
Shreevats Goswami |
c Smit Patel b Muthuswamy |
0 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Ishank Jaggi |
c Smit Patel b Dhawal |
2 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Virat Singh |
c Rayudu b Bawne |
54 |
84 |
6 |
0 |
|
|
Manoj Tiwary |
b Jadhav |
75 |
92 |
3 |
4 |
|
|
Saurabh Tiwary |
c Bawne b Dhawal |
29 |
35 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Biplab Samantaray |
c Surya Kumar b Akshar |
60 |
50 |
7 |
1 |
|
|
Kumar Deobrat |
c Bawne b Muthuswamy |
21 |
14 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
Saurasish Lahiri |
Run-Out Muthuswamy |
7 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Shahbaz Nadeem |
Not Out |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Extras: (w 13, b 1, lb 6) |
20 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total: (8 wickets; 50 overs) |
269 |
|
|
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West Zone Bowling:
|
Bowlers |
Overs |
Runs |
Wickets |
|
|
|
Dhawal Kulkarni |
9 |
35 |
2 |
|
|
D Muthuswamy |
10 |
57 |
2 |
|
|
Shardul Thakur |
7 |
40 |
0 |
|
|
Akshar Patel |
10 |
52 |
1 |
|
|
Yusuf Pathan |
4 |
39 |
0 |
|
|
Ankeet Bawane |
7 |
29 |
1 |
|
|
K Jadhav |
3 |
10 |
1 |
West Zone Innings:
|
Batsmen |
Mode of Dismissal |
Runs |
Balls |
4’s |
6’s |
|
|
|
Smit Patel |
c Goswami b Dinda |
4 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Sheldon Jackson |
c Saurabh Tiwary b Dinda |
7 |
18 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
Ambati Rayudu |
c Goswami b Dinda |
16 |
22 |
3 |
0 |
|
|
Ankeet Bawane |
lbw Nadeem |
28 |
59 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
Kedar Jadhav |
b Samantaray |
97 |
91 |
8 |
3 |
|
|
Surya Kumar Yadav |
c Saurabh Tiwary b Dinda |
35 |
55 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Yusuf Pathan |
Run Out Samantaray |
3 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Akshar Patel |
c Manoj Tiwary b Nadeem |
20 |
11 |
4 |
0 |
|
|
Shardul |
c Virat b Veerpratap |
10 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
Dhawal Kulkarni |
c Saurabh Tiwary b Samantaray |
3 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
D Muthuswamy |
NOT OUT |
1 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Extras: (w 15, b 2, lb 4) |
21 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total: (All out; 47.2 overs) |
245 |
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East Zone bowling:
|
Bowler |
Overs |
Runs |
Wickets |
|
|
|
|
Ashoke Dinda |
9 |
33 |
4 |
|
|
|
Veerpratap Singh |
8 |
46 |
1 |
|
|
|
Biplab Samantaray |
8.2 |
52 |
2 |
|
|
|
Shahbaz Nadeem |
10 |
42 |
2 |
|
|
|
Saurasish Lahiri |
10 |
46 |
0 |
|
|
|
Manoj Tiwary |
2 |
20 |
0 |
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