West Zone on Saturday entered the Duleep Trophy remaining on the again of an important first innings lead after their semifinal conflict in opposition to Central Zone resulted in a draw. The summit conflict between West and both South Zone or North Zone will likely be held on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium from July 12. Chasing an unbelievable 399 to win, Central might solely handle 128 for 4 when the skies opened as much as power the closure at tea throughout the Duleep Trophy semifinal on the KSCA Oval.

West, maybe, might have gone looking for the remaining six wickets had the climate remained clear. But ultimately West weren’t in want of that as a result of they’d a 98-run first innings lead within the financial institution to garner a beneficial outcome.

Starting the fourth and remaining day from 292 for 9, West Zone might add solely 5 extra runs earlier than getting bowled out.

Openers Vivek Singh and Himanshu Mantri returned to the hut with out providing a lot struggle, lowering Central to 17 for two.

Dhruv Jurel began off nicely within the firm of Amandeep Khare however left-arm spinner Dharmendra Jadeja had him stumped by Het Patel as Central additional slipped to 55 for 3.

Rinku Singh supplied some synthetic pleasure to the proceedings, slamming a 30-ball 40. Rinku put the West bowlers by way of the wringer within the final hour earlier than lunch.

Target was bordering on inconceivable alright, however Rinku, who had hammered 5 sixes for Kolkata Knight Riders in opposition to Yash Dayal of Gujarat Titans in IPL 2023, would have none of it.

Jadeja suffered the brunt of his aggression, getting hammered for 2 sixes and one in all them even landed within the KSCA (2) grounds.

But then such targets within the longer format is means past a one man present.

The left-hander from Uttar Pradesh holed out to Arzan Nagwaswalla within the deep to deliver curtains to the leisure.

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