Inter Zonal Tournament, Duleep Trophy for 2023-24 is all set to start from 28th July, 2023 with 6 zones, East Zone, West Zone, North Zone, South Zone, Central Zone & Northeast Zone all fighting for the title. It begins directly with knock-out rounds i.e, quarter-final matches.
Last Title for edition 2022-23 was clinched by West Zone defeating South Zone with huge margins of 294 runs in the final in Coimbatore.
Yashasvi Jaiswal, from West Zone, topped the batsmens’ chart with 497 runs on his name while R Sai Kishore, from South Zone, bagged most wickets, 17 in bowlers’ list.
West & South Zone are awarded semi-final spots in the forthcoming edition for their final clash in the previous season of 2022-23. Rest zones will compete in quarter-final matches.
Final Squad
East Zone
Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Shahbaz Nadeem (vc), A Porel (wk), K Kushagra (wk), Santanu Mishra, M Mura Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Sudip Gharami, Akash Deep, Shahbaz Ahmed, Riyan Parag, A. Majumdar, Bipin Saurabh, Anukul Roy, Ishan Porel
West Zone
Priyank Panchal (captain), Harvik Desai (wk), Het Patel (wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Yuvraj Dodiya, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Atit Seth, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shams Mulani, Prithvi Shaw, Chintan Gaja, Chetan Sakariya, Arpit Vasavada, Sarfaraz Khan, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja
North Zone
Jayant Yadav (C), Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Prashant Chopra (wk), Manan Vohra, Abid Mushtaq, AS Kalsi, Nehal Wadhera, Baltej Singh, Nishant Sandhu, Ankit Kumar, Siddharth Kaul, Dhruv Shorey, Harshit Rana, Pulkit Narang, Vaibhav Arora
South Zone
Hanuma Vihari (c), Mayank Agarwal (vc), KS Bharat (wk), Ricky Bhui (wk), Washington Sundar, KV Sasikanth, V Kaverappa, KV Sasikanth, Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Misal, R Sai Kishore, R Samarth, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Tilak Varma, V Vyshak
Central Zone
Shivam Mavi (c), Upendra Yadav (vc), Kunal Chandela, Avesh Khan, Saurabh Kumar, Yash Thakur, Akshay Wadkar, Shubham Sharma, Saransh Jain, Himanshu Mantri, Manav Sathar, Amandeep Khare, Dhruv Jurel, Vivek Singh and Rinku Singh
Northeast Zone
Rongsen Jonathan(c), Nilesh Lamichaney (vc), Prafullamani (wk), A.R. Ahlawat, Jotin Pheiroijam, Akash Kumar Choudhary, Palzor Tamang, Kishan Sinha, Rajkumar Rex Singh, Kishan Lyngdoh, Dippu Sangma, Nagaho Chishi, Joseph Lalthankhuma, Langlonyamba, Imliwati Lemtur
Match Details
| Match | Date & Time | Teams | Venue | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarterfinal 1 | 28th June – 1st July 04:00 GMT | 09:30 AM IST | Central Zone vs East Zone | Three Ovals KSCA Stadium, Alur | Central Zone won by 170 runs |
| Quarterfinal 2 | 28th June – 1st July 04:00 GMT | 09:30 AM IST | North Zone vs Northeast Zone | M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | North Zone won by 511 runs |
| Semifinal 1 | 5th July – 8th July 04:00 GMT | 09:30 AM IST | West Zone vs Central Zone | Three Ovals KSCA Stadium, Alur | Match drawn |
| Semifinal 2 | 5th July – 8th July 04:00 GMT | 09:30 AM IST | South Zone vs North Zone | M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | South Zone won by 2 wickets |
| Final | 12th July – 16th July 04:00 GMT | 09:30 AM IST | West Zone vs South Zone | M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | South Zone won by 75 runs |
Live Streaming
Through its offical twitter handle for domestic matches, @BCCIdomestic BCCI tweeted about the live broadcasting of Duleep Trophy Final which will take place between West Zone and South Zone at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.
With this announcement, fans shared their excitement and appreciated this move of BCCI. Earlier, cricket fans expressed their dissatisfaction for not streaming any domestic series despite having all the required technologies and facilities. Now, cricket fans can watch it live on BCCI.TV and the Official BCCI app.
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