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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– rajat patidar (@rrjjt_01) September 15, 2025

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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