Duleep Trophy 2009-10

[SachDan]

South Zone wins :yay::yay: All hail Southies...:--D

[saneindian]

Final between South Zone and West Zone. And they will be missing 5 players each as they will play for BP 11. The selectors have turned DT final into a joke. The likes of Kaif, Raina, Kohli, RPS, PK, Tiwary, Saha etc should have been chosen for the BP 11 to allow the two finalists to play at their full stregth in the Duleep final.

[urbestfriend]

:WTF: Mumbai bowlers are most lazy arses :--D In whole Ranji season except final, Mumbai won just 1 match just because they dont want to come out and bowl second time. Now they dont even want to go for a victory when they have 400+ runs lead. Laughable.

[Sachinism]

Pretty good allround performance from Ashwin

[Sachinism]

West Zone are greedy, batted again 345-7 Match Drawn Pujara made 110 and R Sharma 116 off 129 R Jadeja chipped in with another 50 This Vikas Mishra seems decent, is usually picking up wickets

[Chandan]

77+ avg is bits and pieces for you? He played a crucial role with the bat and the ball in many matches and was one of the key players for TN in this season. He scored a century against Mumbai who were the eventual champions. I guess the more you comment the merrier it becomes.

Says all about the player chosen as the third seamer of SZ. One has to admit that country's pace bowling stocks are really limited!

[vvvslaxman]

:WTF: Mumbai bowlers are most lazy arses :--D In whole Ranji season except final' date=' Mumbai won just 1 match just because they dont want to come out and bowl second time. Now they dont even want to go for a victory when they have 400+ runs lead. Laughable.[/quote'] Spot on. 6 of their preliminary matches were drawn out of 8. Karnataka had 5 times outright victory. It is such a negative thinking. There is no point in batting after gaining such a huge lead.

[The Dark Horse]

:yay::yay:

[Shane]

Pandey scores a crucial 50 to get his team through, well done Cowlasher. :giggle:

[Gunner_Mania]

South Zone wins :yay::yay: All hail Southies...:--D

:yay::yay::yay::yay:

[yoda]

Nice come back by SZ. Can someone who saw the match comment on R. Ashwin and his 6 wicket haul?

[vvvslaxman]

Ashwin and Ganapathy are usefull all rounders for TN. If only TN had had a decent seamer they would have won Ranji. They have a dream batting line up.

[Shane]

Nice come back by SZ. Can someone who saw the match comment on R. Ashwin and his 6 wicket haul?

Didnt seen him bowl, but yea was fluent with bat in hand, isn't he an opening batsman turned spinner.

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Badrinath and Pandey's knocks sets up South win South Zone overcame a brief phase of uncertainty in the morning to overcome Central Zone by five wickets in their Duleep Trophy semifinal match at the Maharani Usha Raje cricket stadium here on Friday. More... Badrinath and Pandey's knocks sets up South win Vijay Lokapally INDORE: South Zone overcame a brief phase of uncertainty in the morning to overcome Central Zone by five wickets in their Duleep Trophy semifinal match at the Maharani Usha Raje cricket stadium here on Friday. Resuming at 57 for one, South lost overnight batsmen Abhinav Mukund and Arun Karthik quickly but Central ran into a determined pair of S. Badrinath (82) and Manish Pandey (59), who took the game away. The mission was accomplished in style through a blistering knock by R. Ashwin (59, 44b, 11x4). Badrinath played the captain’s role to perfection. He guided the impetuous Pandey (72b, 8x4, 1x6). Pandey was severe on leg-spinner Piyush Chawla, hammering him for 18 runs in an over. Chawla came in for treatment even from Ashwin, who finished the job. Pandey was especially harsh on Piyush Chawla and hit him to every corner of the park. Chawla proved costly in his very first over as he gave away 18 runs. Later, R. Ashwin (59) too hit him for three boundaries when the leggie bowled from the Media End. Though Pandey hit eight boundaries and a six in the 72 balls he faced, it was unfortunate to see him throw away his wicket to RP Singh, after settling down. R. Ashwin, who picked six wickets on the penultimate day, showed his talent with the bat scoring 59 off 44 balls and remaining unbeaten. At lunch, the score was 201 for 4 and it appeared that Central Zone had given up. Credit to the curator The curator, Samandar Singh, came in for praise from both the captains and the umpires, Sameer Bandekar and Johan Cloete from South Africa, also earned respect for their consistency and “excellent control.” “We didn’t have too many runs to defend,” conceded Central Zone skipper Mohammad Kaif. “It was a good pitch and we needed the bowlers to work hard.” “The Badri-Pandey partnership swung the match their way. Today, we were never in the game. Maybe a magic spell from one of the bowlers may have helped us, but credit to South Zone. They played well.” The pitch was sporting and there was something for everyone,” said Badrinath. “Honestly, I didn’t expect such a comfortable victory. We did concede the lead but we were never out of the game. We batted with purpose and it was nice to be among the runs. Pandey and Ashwin were too good.” Captain’s knock Tamil Nadu’s S Badrinath celebrated his India call-up with a fluent 82, while Manish Pandey and R Ashwin also struck half-centuries. As good as Pandey and Ashwin were, Badrinath was the key. His 116-ball essay with 13 fours and a six and his 108-run fourth-wicket partnership gave Central Zone little chance of a fightback. Badri looked all set for a century but fell 18 short of the mark when he edged a Jalaj Saxena delivery to the wicketkeeper. The little hope that rose with Badrinath’s dismissal — from a top-edge off a sweep — vanished with Ashwin’s robust strokeplay. He drove and flicked the bowlers with authority, fearlessly coming down the pitch, to leave his mark on the contest after his six-wicket haul on the third day. For Central, left-arm seamer RP Singh took two wickets while Praveen Kumar, who had picked up five wickets in the first innings, settled for one. South captain S. Badrinath commended his players for the all-round performance, saying, "Our bowlers and batsmen gave their best and this is the only thing one needs to win." Mohammad Kaif, on the other hand, wished his spinner had clicked. "The first hour, when Praveen and Pankaj got wickets, was good. Had any of our spinners ---Chawla or Jalaj --- picked three-four wickets, we would have won this match," he said. South will now take on West Zone in the final, which begins on February 2 in Hyderabad.

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Pujara, Sharma help themselves to centuries as match meanders to a draw Even before a ball was bowled on the final day, West Zone were runaway winners against North in the Duleep Trophy semi-final. More... Pujara, Sharma help themselves to centuries as match meanders to a draw G. Viswanath Rajkot: Even before a ball was bowled on the final day, West Zone were runaway winners against North in the Duleep Trophy semi-final. But the handful of spectators who showed up to watch the players go through their motions, got a lot more than they had expected, with a batting display that will be hard to erase from their memories anytime soon. Prolific scorers in domestic cricket, Cheteshwar Pujara and Rohit Sharma used the last day of the West Zone-North Zone Duleep Trophy semifinal at the Race Course Ground here to notch up their first centuries in the inter-zonal championship. With a concoction of new-age arrogance and timeless splendour, Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara dazzled away to individual centuries during their 172-run stand before lunch. Extraordinarily strong square of the wicket, Pujara drove with panache along the turf, while Sharma found the top-tier of the stands on several occasions on a dry, flat pitch where they did not require a second invitation to go for the full repertoire of their shots. Never the one to throw his wicket away, Pujara (110) spent nearly three-and-a-half hours, faced 171 balls and hit 16 fours. Sharma (116), meanwhile, faced 129 balls and struck 11 fours and five sixes in his one-and-a-half-hour occupation of the crease. West Zone declared 820 runs ahead but, with little time left for a meaningful outcome, the teams agreed to call it a day. Resuming the day on 56/1, Parthiv Patel was caught behind by Uday Kaul, off Parvinder Awana, without adding to his overnight total of 31. Jaffer, too, did not have an outing to remember, bowled by Vikas Mishra for six. Big stand Sharma joined Pujara at the crease in the 24th over of their second innings, and by the time Pujara was out two balls before lunch, the pair had set the Madhavrao Scindia Stadium on fire. Batting on 110, Pujara eventually mis-timed a slog through midwicket, and was caught by Rahul Dewan at square-leg. His wicket signalled lunch as Sharma went into the pavilion just two runs short of his three-figure mark. Once the Mumbai batsman reached his century at less than a run a ball, things got awfully slow in the second session of play. After hitting five sixes and 11 fours, Sharma was caught on the long-on boundary, also on 110, off Vikas Mishra. Irfan Pathan was then dismissed for a golden duck to take Mishra on a hat-trick, but sensible batting by Ravindra Jadeja (56) saw the merciless hosts piling on more runs. Placid pitch “It was disappointing to miss out on a century in the first innings. Batting on the fourth day is always difficult but North’s bowling was not up to the mark. They used part-time bowlers and it helped our cause,” Pujara said. “I just kept my focus and played my natural game. The match’s fate was decided and everyone was playing to complete the mandatory overs.” There is now a popular joke around here that the pitch curator, Rasik Makwana, is about to get contracts for building highways, given the flat nature of the pitches. And many players agreed to it. “Even if we can play for a few more days, the wicket won’t deteriorate. Such a one-sided wicket makes no sense in a domestic tournament but we have no say in it and the board just looks ignorant,” one North Zone bowler said. It is the same ground where 800-plus runs were scored in an ODI between India and Sri Lanka. After the match skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni asked everyone to forget about the wicket. He had said, “Obviously it is difficult from the bowlers’ point of view. But you don’t get wickets like these every time.” Final at Hyderabad West Zone will take on South Zone in the final to be played at Hyderabad from February 2. Clearly disappointed with West’s decision to bat again despite a 475-run lead, North went through the motions on Friday. At one point, there were four substitutes on the field. West will now face South Zone — who beat Central at Indore — in the final of the tournament at Hyderabad. With five players from West — Sharma, Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Abhishek Nayar and Parthiv Patel — selected for the Board President’s XI team for the tour opener against South Africa, Jaffer believes that it will be a tough ask. “South have come from behind to beat Central Zone. They will come into the final with a lot of confidence, but we will be ready for them. Our bowling line-up is intact as only the batsmen have been chosen for the tour game, but it will be a great opportunity for the youngsters to stand up and get counted,” Jaffer said. Not too many captains in the history of India’s domestic circuit have won the trophy double — Ranji and Duleep — two years consecutively. Jaffer now stands on the verge, one win away from achieving the unique feat. “If I manage a win, it will definitely be a rare milestone,” he said.

[coffee_rules]

Too bad, the SZ and WZ stars are playing in BCX1 match against SA, while the Duleep final is also being played. Wasim Jaffer will score a triple 100 in the final now and bat again with a lead of 400 runs.

[champ]

hearing a lot about ashwin these days ..putting good all round performances ..

[Ram]

I have actually seen Manish Pandey bat, but this dude does seem to have the uncanny ability to deliver when the team needs it the most. The best part, he does it by counter-attacking and not by shutting shop. He's a definite Indian prospect going forward. Same with Ashwin also - Never seen him bat or bowl, but looks like he was the difference b/w the two teams in the semis. Maybe we should give him a trial run in some ODIs (given that he's a utility cricketer) and see whats what. He could be a potential candidate for the no.8 batting spot in ODIs and definite threat to Harbhajan.

[Sooda]

Dissapointed with Piyush, same thing happened last year when Dinesh K took him apart in the South v Central match he got pretty badly smashed around

[vvvslaxman]

Ashwin and Ganapathy should be in the reckoning for one dayers. Good all rounders.