The formidable South Zone will likely be eyeing their second nationwide title in three weeks after they face an equally combative East Zone within the Deodhar Trophy last in Puducherry on Thursday. South Zone, who had gained the Duleep Trophy final month in Bengaluru, have entered the title spherical with an all-win document within the league stage, and maintain a slight edge. South will likely be wanting so as to add a ninth Deodhar Trophy to their cupboard, whereas East Zone will likely be gunning for his or her sixth title within the competitors.

However, latest kind favours South Zone because the Mayank Agarwal-led facet emerged winner over East within the league stage on July 30.

The core energy of South is their batting and bowling items that are in excellent sync with one another.

Openers Agarwal (278 runs, Avg: 69.50) and Rohan Kunnummal (204, Avg: 51) have been constant for South and they are going to be searching for one other fruitful outing within the last.

Their middle-order has been served nicely by B Sai Sudarshan, who has made 185 runs from simply two matches with 100 and a fifty whereas averaging 185.

The Tamil Nadu teen joined the staff late as he was taking part in for India A within the Emerging Asia Cup in Colombo. But he has greater than made up for his delayed arrival.

But East will financial institution on Riyan Parag for one more blistering effort. After a tepid starting to the event, the 21-year-old Assam participant has come into his personal with two centuries towards North Zone and West Zone.

Parag, now, has 259 runs from 4 matches at a mean of 86.33, and stands fourth on the run-makers’ record.

While South would possibly simply have an higher hand over East within the batting division owing to the presence of a number of match-winners, the groups’ bowling is reasonably evenly-matched.

Pacer Vidwath Kaverappa and left-arm spinner R Sai Kishore have guided South’s bowling impressively, taking 11 and 10 wickets respectively.

They have additionally acquired strong assist from pacers Vasuki Koushik (7 wickets) and Vysakh Vijayakumar (6 wickets).

East Zone are able to robust reply because the trio of left-arm spinner Shahbaz Ahmad (10), leg-spinner Parag (9) and tempo bowler Manishankar Murasingh (8) have been amongst wickets.

Match begins at 1.30 PM IST.

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