Duleep trophy 2025 winner central zone: The final match of Dilip Trophy 2025 ended on Monday, 15 September. The final was played between South Zone and Central Zone. The final match was won by Rajat Patidar’s team Central Zone by 6 wickets and also won the Dilip Trophy. Rajat Patidar has earlier won the first title of RCB in IPL 2025, captaining Royal Challengers Bangalore. The Central Zone has received a prize money of one crore rupees for winning the Dilip Trophy.

Dilip Trophy 2025 Prize Money?

Since 2023, there has been a lot of increase in both prize money and salary of players in domestic cricket. Earlier, the winning team used to get only 40 lakh rupees for winning the Dilip Trophy, while this time the Central Zone team has been given a prize money of one crore rupees for winning this title in 2025. This time the runner-up team has received an amount of Rs 50 lakh. At the same time, the first runner -up used to get 20 lakh rupees.

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How did the Central Zone become the seventh time the champion?

In the match played between Central Zone and South Zone, Rajat Patidar’s team won this match in the first session of the last day of the match. In this match, Central Zone captain Rajat Patidar won the toss and decided to bowl first and invited South Zone, captained by Mohammad Azharuddin, to bat.

South Zone’s team was all out for 149 runs in the first innings. At the same time, the Central Zone scored 511 runs in the first innings and took a lead of 362 runs. From here, the Central Zone was seen to win close, but South Zone also batted fiercely in the second innings and scored 426 runs and took a lead of 64 runs. The Central Zone achieved this target of 65 runs losing 4 wickets and captured the Dilip Trophy for the seventh time.

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Rituraj Gaikwad has scored a century against the Central Zone in the Dilip Trophy. In the semi -finals, Gaikwad won the West Zone from trouble by hitting a century in difficult situations. He has not played any match for Team India after July 2024, but on the basis of this century, he has caught the attention of the selectors. However, Shreyas Iyer could not score a big score. Khalil Ahmed made him a clean bold at the score of 25 runs.

Rituraj Gaikwad, who captained the CSK team in the Indian Premier League, came to bat on number-4 for the Gaikwad West Zone. The team had lost 2 wickets for just 10 runs, when Gaikwad took one end and made a very important partnership of 82 runs with Aryan Desai. Desai was dismissed for 39 runs. He then added 42 runs with Shreyas Iyer.

Rituraj Gaikwad becomes One Man Army

Rituraj Gaikwad, who captained the CSK team in the Indian Premier League, came to bat on number-4 for the Gaikwad West Zone. The team had lost 2 wickets for just 10 runs, when Gaikwad took one end and made a very important partnership of 82 runs with Aryan Desai. Desai was dismissed for 39 runs. He then added 42 runs with Shreyas Iyer.

The 2 -match domestic Test series is coming near against the West Indies in October. After that Team India has to play Test series against South Africa. Gaikwad continued well in the Dilip Trophy, so his return to India is possible.

Anyway, the Indian Test team needs a good batsman of number-3. In the series against England, both Karun Nair and Sai Sudarshan were flopped on number-3. Gaekwad has the experience of batting in the top order.

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The semi -final matches of the Dalip Trophy have started today, both of them are running at the BCCI Center of Excellence in Bengaluru. The second semi -final is being played between the West Zone and the Central Zone. West Zone, who batted first after winning the toss, did not start well, his opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed for 4 runs in the first over. After this, the second opener Harvik Desai was dismissed by Deepak Chahar. South Zone and North Zone are face to face in the second semi -finals.

Khalil dismissed Jaiswal

Yashasvi Jaiswal, who was included in the West Zone, captained by Shardul Thakur, was a victim of Khalil Ahmed on the third ball of the first over. Earlier, Yashasvi hit a four. Harvik Desai started the innings with him, he was caught out on the first ball of the fourth over. He was dismissed by Deepak Chahar. Till the news was written, West Zone has scored 72 runs after losing 2 wickets after 20 overs. Arya Desai 32 and Rituraj Gaikwad are unbeaten on 32 runs. These two are expected to share a good partnership.

Shreyas Iyer will be watching

Shardul Thakur and Shreyas Iyer are yet to bat in the West Zone. Everyone’s eyes will also remain on Shreyas Iyer. He has been the subject of discussion since he was ignored in the Asia Cup.

West Zone playing 11: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Harvik Desai (wicketkeeper), Arya Desai, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur (Captain), Shreyas Iyer, Tanush Kotion, Shams Mulani, Dharmendra Singh Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Arjan Nagwaswala.

Central Zone playing 11: Rajat Patidar (Captain), Yash Rathad Rathore, Danish Malewar, Ayush Pandey, Shubham Sharma, Upendra Yadav (wicket -keeper), summary Jain, Harsh Dubey, Deepak Chahar, Khalil Ahmed, Yash Thakur.

South and North face to face in the first semi-finals

The first semi -final is being played between South Zone, captained by Mohammad Azharuddin and North Zone captained by Ankit Kumar. In this match, North has decided to bowl first after winning the toss. Till the news was written, South Zone has scored 34 runs in 10 overs without losing wickets. Tanmay Agarwal 16 and Narayan Jagadisin are unbeaten by scoring 9 runs.

South Zone playing 11: Tanmay Aggarwal, Narayan Jagadisin (wicket -keeper), Mohammad Azharuddin (captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Mohit Kale, Ricky Bhui, Salman Nizar, Tanay Tyagarajan, Gurjapneet Singh, MD Nidhish, V Kaushik.

North Zone playing 11: Ankit Kumar (captain), Shubham Khajuria, Yash Dhul, Ayush Badoni, Nishant Sindhu, Kanhaiya Wadhavan (wicket -keeper), Sahil Lotra, Mayank Dagar, Aquib Nabi, Yudhvir Singh, Anshul Kamboj.