Sanju Samson scored 89 runs off 83 balls.
The final round of the Duleep Trophy has begun. On Thursday, the match between India-A and India-C began at the A Stadium in Anantapur, while the match between India-B and India-D began at the B Stadium.
At the end of the first day’s play, India-D had scored 306 runs after losing 5 wickets. Sanju Samson of the team was not out after scoring 89 runs. While India-A scored 224 runs after losing 7 wickets. Shashwat Rawat of the team did not stay out after scoring a century.
India A vs India C India C captain Ruturaj Gaikwad won the toss and chose to bowl at Anantapur on Thursday. India-A lost 5 wickets by a score of 36 runs. Pratham Singh could only score 6 runs, Mayank Agarwal 6, Tilak Verma 5 and Ryan Parag could only score 2 runs. Kumar Kushagra could not even open an account.
Shashwat Rawat then took over the team along with Shams Mulani. Both of them completed a fifty-year partnership and took the team past 100. Mulani was out after scoring 44 runs. After him, Tanush Kotian also could only score 10 runs.
Shashwat Rawat scored a century in the final innings of the Duleep Trophy.
Rawat scored a century In the end, Avesh Khan did not stay out after scoring 16 runs. Shashwat Rawat, playing alongside him, played an innings of 122 runs and took the team past 200. At the end of the day, the team’s score was 224/7. Shashwat and Avesh completed a 70-run partnership. For India-C, fast bowler Anshul Kamboj took 3 wickets and Vijaykumar Vyashak took 2 wickets. Gaurav Yadav also achieved success.
Anshul Kamboj took 3 wickets.
India-B vs India-D India-B won the toss and chose to bowl at the B Stadium in Anantapur. Devdutt Padikkal of Team-D has entered into a century-old partnership with KS Bharat. Padikkal was out after scoring 50 runs and Bharat after scoring 52 runs. Ricky Bhui, who came in at number 3, also scored a fifty, adding 54 runs with Nishant Sindhu. Bhui was out after scoring 56 runs and Nishant after scoring 19 runs. After him, captain Shreyas Iyer could not open his account even after playing 5 balls.
4 batsmen scored fifty on the first day of India-D.
Samson approaches the century Sanju Samson and Saransh Jain took charge of India-D after losing 5 wickets for a score of 216 runs. Both brought the team’s score to 306 at the end of the day. Samson did not stay out after scoring 89 runs and Saransh 26 runs. Leg-spinner Rahul Chahar took 3 wickets for India-B. While Mukesh Kumar and Navdin Saini scored 1 success each.
Sanju Samson was not out after scoring 89 runs on the first day.
India C tops the points table The winner will be decided in the final round of the Duleep Trophy, the team at the top of the points table will become the champion. Currently, India-C is number one with 9 points. India-B has 7 points and India-A has 6 points. India-D have not won a single match so far, so they have no points. In the tournament, you get 6 points for an outright win, 3 points for a draw with a lead in the first set, and 1 point for being behind in a draw.
Shreyas, Ryan, Samson and Rinku have the last chance The final round of the tournament is the last chance for star players like Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag and Rinku Singh to prove themselves ahead of the ongoing Test season. After this competition, the next first-class tournament is the Ranji season starting October 11 and by then the team will be announced for the New Zealand Test series starting October 16.
All India A teams: Mayank Agarwal (captain), Riyan Parag, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, Khalil Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, Sheikh Rashid, Shams Mulani and Aaqib Khan.
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Sarfaraz Khan, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Suyyash Prabhudesai and Himanshu Mantri.
India C: Rituraj Gaikwad (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar, Abhishek Porel (week), Baba Inderjeet, Hrithik Shaukeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vijaykumar Vyaksh, Anshul Kamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (week) and Sandeep Warrier.
India D: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (week), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thackeray, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (week), Saurabh Kumar, Vidwat Kawerappa and Nishant Sindhu.