Rajat Patidar (left) team reached Central Zone FinalImage Credit Source: PTI
Rajat Patidar may not be returning to Team India, but he is continuously showing his batting in domestic cricket. Along with the batting, now even under the captaincy, he is leading his team in a strong way. After taking Madhya Pradesh to the final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and then the Royal Challengers Bangalore, after winning his first IPL title, is now shown in the Kamal Dalip Trophy of Patidar’s captaincy. In this tournament, the Central Zone, captained by Patidar, has made it to the finals, where he will face South Zone.
The first tournament of the Indian domestic cricket season, both the semi -finals of the Dalip Trophy were draws. In the tournament being played in Bengaluru, the Central Zone and North Zone made it to the semi -finals based on the first innings lead in the quarter -final matches. The Central Zone encountered the West Zone in the semi -finals, which won the tournament title in the previous season. But in the last season, Ajinkya Rahane, who was the captain of the team, was not part of the team this time. Shardul Thakur was commanding the team in his place, while star players like Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shreyas Iyer were also in the team.
Patidar’s team dominates West Zone
Despite this, the Central Zone brought the West Zone, which was seen to be stronger on the strength of its strong batting and sharp bowling. After stopping West Zone for 438 runs in the first innings, the Central Zone, captained by Patidar, scored 600 runs in their first innings. No batsman scored a century from the team but 6 batsmen scored half -centuries, out of which 5 batsmen scored more than 75 runs. Captain Patidar himself scored 77 runs, while Shubham Sharma scored the highest 96 runs.
On the basis of this innings, the Central Zone was scheduled to reach the final as it took a lead of 162 runs in the first innings. Even in the second innings, West batsmen could not do anything special and until the end of the match draw, he could score 216 runs after losing 8 wickets. The Star of Spinner Summary of Central’s success was Jain, who took 3 wickets in the first innings and 5 wickets in the second. Also played an unbeaten 63 runs.
South Zone also entry in finals
At the same time, in the second semi -final, South Zone made it to the finals by winning the North. The match also ended on the draw on the last day but South entered the final on the basis of a huge lead of 175 runs in the first innings. Opener Narayan Jagadishan played the biggest role in bringing South to the finals, who scored 197 runs in the first innings itself. On the basis of his innings, South scored 536 runs in the first innings. Then on the basis of fast bowling of Gurjapneet Singh and Mohammad Nidhish, South had given North to 361 runs. In the second innings, South scored 95 runs after losing 1 wicket, when the match was over. Jagadishan scored a half -century this time too.
