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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In the final of the Dilip Trophy, Rajat Patidar has given a strong century. The Central Zone team has taken a huge lead after consisting of South Zone for 149 runs in the final. On the second day, till the stumps, the Central Zone has taken a lead of 235 runs and has 5 wickets left in the first innings. On the second day, Rajat Patidar scored 101 runs, while Yash Rathore is standing at the crease after scoring 137 runs. This is the 15th First-Class Century of Patidar.

In response to the 149 runs of South Zone, the team of Central Zone lost 3 wickets on a score of 93. From here, Rajat Patidar and Yash Rathore gave a 167 -run partnership to the Central Zone team. On the second day, Summary Jain came into the limelight for his slow batting, who is playing just 47 runs in 119 balls. His strike rate is only 39.50.

Gurjapneet Singh has proved to be the most successful bowler for the South Zone, who has taken 3 wickets. He wreaked havoc on the batsmen in the first session, but in the second and third sessions, Patidar and Rathore beat up the bowlers of South Zone fiercely.

Patidar, Royal Challengers in IPL captain Bangalore. He hit 12 fours and 2 sixes in his 101 -run innings. He had played 73 balls to score 50 runs in his innings, while he scored the next 50 runs in just 39 balls.

In the last session of the second day, the South Zone team must have breathed a sigh of relief. At one time the Central Zone team scored 260 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. But after falling 2 wickets within 6 runs, there is hope in the match for South Zone.

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RCB captain jitesh sharma: In the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bangalore is not captained by Rajat Patidar but Jitesh Sharma. The match is being played at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow and when the time of the toss came, the wicketkeeper batsman Jitesh Sharma came out from RCB. Actually RCB’s regular captains are struggling with hand injury, so they have not come to fielding in the match against SRH.

Silver Patidar will play Rajat Patidar, not a captain

RCB regular captain Rajat Patidar suffered a finger injury in the match against Chennai Super Kings. The Patidars have not fully recovered from that injury, so they are not fielding in the match with SRH. Jitesh Sharma, who is captaining the team in the match, told during the toss that Patidar will come to bat as an impact player.

There has been no information on this subject whether the captain of RCB has changed for only one match or the silver Patidar will play as an impact player in the next matches as well. If the IPL 2025 tournament had not been suspended for a week due to Indo-Pak tension, the silver Patidar was going to miss the match against Lucknow Super Giants on 13 May and the weight of captaincy was to come on Jitesh Sharma’s shoulders in place.

The IPL 2025 figures are enough to prove that silver Patidar has been a good captain for RCB. Before the match against SRH, Bangalore has registered 8 wins in 12 matches under the captaincy of Patidar and his team has already qualified for the playoffs. Now RCB is fighting to stay in Top-2.

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