NZ vs EZ Highlights: First innings lead helps North Zone reach semifinals of Duleep Trophy, Check Highlights

NZ vs EZ Highlights: North Zone vs East Zone Highlights: North Zone qualify for semifinals: North Zone and East Zone were involved in a drawn Duleep Trophy quarterfinal contest in Puducherry. Despite a draw, North Zone managed to make it to the semfinals of the competition on their virtue of their first innings lead. East had scored 397 in the first essay and North replied with 545 to ensure their progression with the game coming to no conclusion. Follow Duleep Trophy live updates with InsideSport.IN

NZ vs EZ Highlights: North Zone moves into semifinals of Duleep Trophy on virtue of first innings lead in quarterfinal: Watch highlights

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In fact, Day 4 belonged to East as their bowlers did well to wrap up the North team for 545 runs. The lower order of North faltered in the morning and were dismissed for 545. The scores could have been in excess of 600 had the likes of HJ Rana and Mandeep Singh converted their half-centuries into bigger scores.

Overall, the match was more or less decided when North Zone added 545 in their only innings. They were led by the super talented Yash Dhull, who had a wonderful outing. He scored 193 runs from 243 in ODI format like innings. His innings comprised 28 fours and two sixes.

But that was the not only contribution. Others around him batted well too. Dhruv Shorey was the second highest run-scorer with 81.

NZ vs EZ Highlights: North Zone moves into semifinals of Duleep Trophy on virtue of first innings lead in quarterfinal: Watch highlights

On Day 4, all eyes were on whether Mandeep Singh or Himanshu Rana would complete their ton. But both of them faltered. The former lost his wicket for 63 while the latter managed 81.

They went down from 479/3 to 545 all out as Shahbaz scalped five wickets overall in the match. When East Zone came to bat, they managed 102/3 as Abishek Porel scored an unbeaten half-century.

East Zone second innings

Batsmen		R	B	4S	6S	SR
Riyan Parag	c Mandeep Singh b Jagjit Singh	13	8	0	0	162.50
Manoj Tiwary (C)	c A Malhotra b NA Saini	10	14	2	0	71.43
Virat Singh	c A Malhotra b P Narang	7	11	0	0	63.64
Abhishek Porel (WK)	Not out	17	13	3	0	130.77
Anustup Majumdar	Not out	0	2	0	0	0.00
Extra	0 (b 0, w 0, nb 0, lb 0)
Total	47/3 (8)
Yet To Bat	Sudip Kumar Gharami, Shahbaz Ahmed, MB Murasingh, S Nadeem, Akash Deep, IC Porel

BOWLING	O	R	W	ECON
Navdeep Saini	4	24	1	6.00
Jagjit Singh	3	22	1	7.30
Pulkit Narang	1	1	1	1.00

Fall Of Wickets	FOW	Over
R Parag	1-23	3.3
MK Tiwary	2-29	4.5
Virat Singh	3-47	7.4

North Zone Batting Scorecard:

Batsmen		R	B	4S	6S	SR
Yash Dhull	b MB Murasingh	193	243	28	2	79.42
Manan Vohra	st Abhishek Porel b S Nadeem	44	81	5	1	54.32
Dhruv Shorey	b Akash Deep	81	163	9	0	49.69
Mandeep Singh (C)	c Abhishek Porel b Shahbaz Ahmed	63	174	6	0	36.21
Himanshu Rana	st Abhishek Porel b Shahbaz Ahmed	81	149	11	0	54.36
Nishant Sindhu	c Akash Deep b Shahbaz Ahmed	22	43	1	1	51.16
Anmol Malhotra (WK)	c Abhishek Porel b Shahbaz Ahmed	1	4	0	0	25.00
Pulkit Narang	lbw b Shahbaz Ahmed	8	12	1	0	66.67
Siddarth Kaul	c Abhishek Porel b R Parag	8	12	2	0	66.67
Jagjit Singh	st Abhishek Porel b S Nadeem	18	21	2	1	85.71
Navdeep Saini	Not out	2	6	0	0	33.33
Extra	24 (b 9, w 0, nb 15, lb 0)
Total	545/10 (148.5)

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON
Ishan Porel	21	3	74	0	3.25
Manisankar Murasingh	25	3	70	1	2.80
Akash Deep	22	3	89	1	4.00
Shahbaz Nadeem	39.5	4	124	2	3.10
Shahbaz Ahmed	19.4	1	86	5	4.40
Riyan Parag	17	1	78	1	4.60
Manoj Tiwary	0.2	0	2	0	6.00
Anustup Majumdar	4	0	13	0	3.30

East Zone Innings

Batsmen		R	B	4S	6S	SR
Sudip Kumar Gharami	c & b HJ Rana	68	137	10	0	49.67
Riyan Parag	c A Malhotra b NA Saini	8	11	2	0	72.73
Anustup Majumdar	c Nishant Sindhu b S Kaul	47	64	7	0	73.44
Virat Singh	c NA Saini b P Narang	117	247	12	1	47.37
Manoj Tiwary (C)	c P Narang b Nishant Sindhu	27	101	3	0	26.73
Abhishek Porel (WK)	c P Narang b NA Saini	6	41	0	0	14.63
Shahbaz Ahmed	c P Narang b Nishant Sindhu	62	140	7	1	44.29
Manisankar Murasingh	c P Narang b DR Shorey	32	50	2	1	64.00
Shahbaz Nadeem	lbw b Nishant Sindhu	14	26	2	0	53.85
Akash Deep	b NA Saini	0	5	0	0	0.00
Ishan Porel	Not out	4	5	1	0	80.00
Extra	12 (b 0, w 0, nb 7, lb 5)
Total	397/10 (136.4)

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON
Siddarth Kaul	24	3	77	1	3.20
Navdeep Saini	25	3	83	3	3.30
Jagjit Singh	20	2	43	0	2.20
Nishant Sindhu	20.4	3	64	3	3.10
Pulkit Narang	30	8	81	1	2.70
Himanshu Rana	11	6	25	1	2.30
Dhruv Shorey	6	1	19	1	3.20

Fall Of Wickets	FOW	Over
R Parag	1-18	3.5
AP Majumdar	2-97	25.5
Sudip Kumar Gharami	3-156	46.2
MK Tiwary	4-233	76.5
Abhishek Porel	5-254	89.6
Virat Singh	6-293	105.6
MB Murasingh	7-361	124.3
S Nadeem	8-389	132.4
Akash Deep	9-390	133.5
Shahbaz Ahmed	10-397	136.4

UPDATED Schedule

	DULEEP TROPHY 2022-23
Stage	Match Name	From Date	To Date	City/Results
Quarterfinal 1	West Zone Vs North East Zone	08/09/22	11/09/22	Drawn, West Zone 1st innings lead
Quarterfinal 2	North Zone Vs East Zone	08/09/22	11/09/22	Drawn, North Zone 1st Innings lead
Semifinal 1	Central Zone Vs West Zone	15/09/22	18/09/22	Coimbatore
Semifinal 2	South Zone Vs North Zone	15/09/22	18/09/22	Salem
Final	SF 1 Winner vs SF 2 Winner	21/09/22	25/09/22	Coimbatore