Driving on a wonderful eight-wicket haul by Saurabh Kumar, Central Zone superior to the semifinals of the Duleep Trophy with a facile 170-run win over East Zone right here on Saturday.
Resuming from the in a single day 69 for six, East Zone by no means actually provided any struggle and have been bowled out for 129 of their second innings.
Of their semifinal match, Central will face West Zone on the Alur grounds from July 5. Within the second semifinal, North Zone will tackle South Zone on the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
The presence of Riyan Parag was the lone hope for East to at the least run Central shut. However that was quickly snuffed out when left-arm spinner Saurabh trapped the Assam teen in entrance of the wicket.
Saurabh quickly added the wickets of Akash Deep, Shahbaz Nadeem and Ishan Porel to his kitty to stroll away with a powerful determine of 8 for 64.
Saurabh grabbed 11 wickets within the match to finish a high quality outing.
The collapse was reasonably gorgeous as there was nothing actually alarming within the pitch to justify such a collapse. In actual fact, East have been bowled out for 122 of their first innings.