Duleep Trophy- Abhimanyu Easwaran’s century: India B scored 182 for the loss of 5 wickets, Abhishek scored a fifty for India C
The final round of Duleep Trophy has started. On the second day on Friday, India C has scored 188 runs after losing 7 wickets. The third session of the match is going on. Abhishek Porel scored the highest 82 runs from the team. Aaqib Khan took 3 wickets from India A’s side.
Earlier, India C bowled out India A for 297 runs. Shashwat Rawat scored the highest 124 runs for the team by scoring a century. Apart from him, number 9 batsman Avesh Khan played an innings of 51 runs. Vijaykumar Vyas took 4 wickets for India C.
In another match, India B has scored 182 runs after losing 5 wickets. Captain Abhimanyu Easwaran is at the crease with 100 runs and Washington Sundar with 31 runs.
India-D could add only 43 runs to their yesterday’s score and India B bowled out the team for 349 runs. Sanju Samson scored a century from the team. He played an innings of 104 runs. Apart from him, Devdutt Padikkal made a partnership of 50 runs and Srikar Bharat made a partnership of 52 runs.
India-A vs India-C India-C captain Rituraj Gaikwad won the toss and chose to bowl in Anantapur on Thursday. India-A lost 5 wickets for a score of 36 runs. Pratham Singh scored 6, Mayank Agarwal 6, Tilak Verma 5 and Riyan Parag scored only 2 runs. Kumar Kushagra could not even open the account.
Shashwat Rawat then took charge of the team along with Shams Mulani. Both of them made a fifty partnership and took the team past 100. Mulani was out after scoring 44 runs. After him, Tanush Kotian could also score only 10 runs.
Rawat hit a century. In the end, Avesh Khan played an innings of 51 runs. Playing with him, Shashwat Rawat played an innings of 124 runs and took the team past 200. The team has scored 297 runs. Fast bowler Vijaykumar Vyas took 4 wickets from India-C. Apart from him, Anshul Kamboj took 3 wickets and Gaurav Yadav got 2 wickets.
India-C tops the points table. The winner of Duleep Trophy will be decided in the last round itself, the team that tops the points table will become the champion. Currently, India-C is at number one with 9 points. India-B has 7 points and India-A has 6 points. India-D has not won a single match so far, so they do not have any points. In the tournament, 6 points are awarded for a direct win, 3 points for a draw with a lead in the first innings and 1 point for trailing in a draw.
All Teams India A: Mayank Agarwal (captain), Riyan Parag, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, Sheikh Rashid, Shams Mulani and Aaqib Khan.
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Sarfaraz Khan, Mushir Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Suyash Prabhudesai and Himanshu Mantri.
India C: Rituraj Gaikwad (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar, Abhishek Porel (wicketkeeper), Baba Indrajit, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vijaykumar Vyak, Anshul Kamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper) and Sandeep Warrier.
India D: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Saurabh Kumar, Vidvat Kaverappa and Nishant Sindhu.
