2014–15 Duleep Trophy

2014–15 Duleep Trophy 15 October 2014 2 November 2014 BCCI First-class cricket Knockout Central Zone 6 5 4 KL Rahul (SZ) (336) Rana Dutta (EZ) & Pragyan Ojha (SZ) (8 each) 2013–14 2013–14 Duleep Trophy 2016–17 2016–17 Duleep Trophy 2014–15 Duleep Trophy was the 54th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament contested by 5 zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone.Duleep Trophy, 2014/15 http://www.espncricinfo.com/duleep-trophy-2014-15/engine/current/series/775453.html ESPNcricinfo 9 November 2014 Central Zone won the tournament after beating South Zone by 9 runs in the final at Delhi. Schedule The 2014–15 Duleep Trophy consisted of four matches played between the teams, where the two teams that performed the worst in the 2013–14 season of the Duleep Trophy, East Zone and West Zone, had to play each other in an additional knockout game to progress to the semifinals. The schedule: 15–18 October — Quarterfinal – East Zone vs West Zone 22–25 October — Semifinal1 – Central Zone vs North Zone 22–25 October — Semifinal2 – South Zone vs Winner Quarterfinal 29 October–2 November — Final – Winner Semifinal1 vs Winner Semifinal2 Squads Central Zone East Zone North Zone South Zone West Zone Piyush Chawla (c) Robin Bist Faiz Fazal Arindam Ghosh Ashok Menaria Amit Mishra Naman Ojha (wk) Ishwar Pandey Mahesh Rawat (wk) Jalaj Saxena Karn Sharma Shalabh Shrivastava Anureet Singh Pankaj Singh Kuldeep Yadav Manoj Tiwary (c) Natraj Behera Sudip Chatterjee Ashok Dinda Rana Dutta Basant Mohanty Shahbaz Nadeem Abu Nechim Rameez Nemat Govind Podder Samar Quadri Wriddhiman Saha (wk) Gokul Sharma Laxmi Shukla Saurabh Tiwary Harbhajan Singh (c) Parvinder Awana Samiullah Beigh Yuzvendra Chahal Rishi Dhawan Gautam Gambhir Rajat Paliwal Harshal Patel Parvez Rasool Nitin Saini (wk) Virender Sehwag Gurkeerat Singh Jiwanjot Singh Mandeep Singh Yuvraj Singh Vinay Kumar (c) Baba Aparajith Amogh Desai Shreyas Gopal VA Jagadeesh Dinesh Karthik (wk) Abhimanyu Mithun Abhinav Mukund Pragyan Ojha Ramaswamy Prasanna KL Rahul Malolan Rangarajan Dwaraka Ravi Teja HS Sharath Robin Uthappa Hanuma Vihari Cheteshwar Pujara (c) Ankit Bawne Jasprit Bumrah Akshay Darekar Harshad Khadiwale Dhawal Kulkarni Shrikant Mundhe Akshar Patel Parthiv Patel (wk) Yusuf Pathan Aditya Tare (wk) Shardul Thakur Saurabh Wakaskar Suryakumar Yadav Vijay Zol Results Quarterfinal Semifinals Final East Zone W West Zone South Zone W East Zone Central Zone FIL North Zone South Zone Central Zone W Quarterfinal 15–18 October East Zone West Zone 278 (75 overs) Manoj Tiwary 100* (140) Dhawal Kulkarni 3/62 (21 overs) 322 (90.4 overs) Ankit Bawne 105 (194) Rana Dutta 5/60 (19 overs) 281/7d (76 overs) Saurabh Tiwary 109 (167) Dhawal Kulkarni 4/28 (16 overs) 135 (44 overs) Parthiv Patel 39 (71) Basant Mohanty 4/44 (16 overs) CH Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak West Zone won the toss and elected to field. Krishnamachari Bharatan (Ind) and Mick Martell (Aus) Scorecard East Zone won by 102 runs Basant Mohanty (EZ) Semifinal 1 22–25 October Central Zone North Zone 538 (145.4 overs) Naman Ojha 217 (348) Rishi Dhawan 3/123 (32 overs) 457 (118.1 overs) Gautam Gambhir 167 (242) Kuldeep Yadav 3/94 (23 overs) 312 (74.4 overs) Mahesh Rawat 116 (161) Parvinder Awana 3/30 (10 overs) 24/1 (5 overs) Parvez Rasool 12* (9) Mahesh Rawat 1/11 (2 overs) PCA Stadium, Mohali Central Zone won the toss and elected to bat. Mick Martell (Aus) and Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) Scorecard Match drawn; Central Zone advanced on first innings lead Naman Ojha (CZ) Semifinal 2 22–25 October South Zone East Zone 264 (101.1 overs) Robin Uthappa 120 (196) Laxmi Ratan Shukla 4/40 (21 overs) 84 (47.4 overs) Saurabh Tiwary 17 (43) Stuart Binny 4/24 (13 overs) 62 (23.4 overs) Laxmi Ratan Shukla 18 (23) HS Sharath 4/27 (7.4 overs) CH Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak East Zone won the toss and elected to field. Pashchim Pathak and Shavir Tarapore (both Ind) Scorecard South Zone won by an innings and 118 runs Robin Uthappa (SZ) Final 29 October–2 November Central Zone South Zone 276 (100 overs) Robin Bist 79 (153) Pragyan Ojha 2/49 (19 overs) 379 (90.3 overs) KL Rahul 185 (233) Ali Murtaza 4/59 (13 overs) 403 (105.5 overs) Robin Bist 112* (174) Shreyas Gopal 4/60 (14.5 overs) 291 (88.4 overs) KL Rahul 130 (152) Ali Murtaza 3/59 (16.4 overs) Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Central Zone won the toss and elected to bat. Anil Chaudhary and K Srinath (both Ind) Scorecard Central Zone won by 9 runs KL Rahul (SZ) References External links ESPNcricinfo page Duleep Trophy Duleep Trophy