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North Zone win Deodhar Trophy

Source: PTI
February 04, 2005 22:48 IST
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Yuvraj Singh hit an unbeaten century to power North Zone to a four-wicket victory over South Zone in their concluding league match and help them clinch the Deodhar Trophy limited-overs tournament for the tenth time in 31 years, in Valsad, on Friday.

The left-handed India batsman waded into the weak South attack with gusto and slammed 16 fours and three sixes in his 124-runs essay to lift North past their opponents' modest total of 212 for 9 with eight overs to spare.

Yuvraj and seasoned campaigner Ajay Jadeja, who scored made 34, strung together a vital stand of 122 runs for the fifth wicket to rescue North from a precarious 38 for four, including the wicket of captain Dinesh Mongia (19).

By the time the two were separated at 160 their team was well on the way to regaining the title after a season's gap.

Yuvraj and Sangram Singh (16) then carried the score past 200 with another important stand of 47 runs to put North well in sight of the title.

Earlier, South struggled against the varied North attack after choosing to bat first and were indebted to opener Dinesh Karthik's 46, Vengopal Rao's 59 and Sridharan Sriram's 36 for their decent score.

North's most successful bowler was off spinner Harbhajan Singh, who took 4 for 48 after Amit Bhandari had given early breakthroughs with the wickets of opener Rowland Barrington and South captain Venkata Sai Laxman. Bhandari picked 2 for 30 in 10 overs.

North finished on top of the league with 14 points while West, who lost by 12 runs to Central at Jamnagar in another match played on Friday, finished runners-up with 9 points, followed by Central (8), South (7) and East (2) in that order.

Scorecard

South Zone:
R Barrington c Bisla b Bhandari 10
D Karthik c Bisla b J Sharma 46
V V S Laxman c Bisla b Bhandari 6
S Sriram c and b Mongia 36
Y Venugopal Rao c Gagandeep b Harbhajan 59
A Yadav c Jadeja b Harbhajan 6
S Badrinath c Bisla b J Sharma 24
S Nair c Yuvraj b Harbhajan 1
S Vishnu Vardan b Harbhajan 8
T Yohannan not out 1
R Jesuraj not out 1

Extras: (lb 4, nb 1, w 9) 14

Total: (for 9 wkts in 50 overs) 212

Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-34, 3-90, 4-124, 5-137, 6-193, 7-195, 8-210, 9-210.

Bowling: Bhandari 10-0-30-2, Gagandeep Singh 10-1-38-0, Jadeja 5-0-28-0, Joginder Sharma 8-0-25-2, Harbhajan Singh 10-0-48-4, Mongia 7-0-39-1.

North Zone:
M S Bisla c Barrington b Yohannan 9
G Gambhir c Jesuraj b Vardhan 0
M Manhas c S Nair b Vardhan 0
D Mongia c and b Vardhan 19
Yuvraj Singh not out 124
A Jadeja st Karthik b S Nair 34
Sangram Singh c Laxman b Sriram 16
J Sharma not out 1

Extras: (b 1, lb 4, nb 3, w 3) 11

Total: (for 6 wkts in 42 overs) 214

Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-8, 3-16, 4-38, 5-160, 6-207

Bowling: Yohannan 7-0-36-1, Vardhan 9-2-35-3, Jesuraj 8-0-43-0, Venugopal Rao 5-0-22-0, Badrinath 4-0-27-0, S Nair 7-0-36-1, Laxman 1-0-3-0, Sriram 1-0-7-1.

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