दलीप ट्रॉफी फाइनल राउंड: इंडिया ए ने पहले सेशन में 5 विकेट गंवाए; इंडिया ए की ओर से पडिक्कल-भरत अर्धशतक के करीब

The third and final round of the domestic first class tournament Duleep Trophy has started. By lunch on the first day on Thursday, India A has lost 5 wickets for 67 runs against India C. In another match, India D has scored 98 runs without loss against India B.

In the third round, India C is playing against India A and India B is playing against India D. India C and India B teams have won the toss and decided to bowl. Both the matches are being played in Anantapur.

The champion of the tournament will be decided from this round. This time there are no knockout matches in the tournament and the table topper team will become the champion. Suryakumar Yadav has returned in place of Sarfaraz in India-B. Sarfaraz is a part of the Indian team in the series against Bangladesh.

India A vs India C: Vijay Kumar and Anshul got 2-2 wickets each India A did not have a good start. The team suffered its first blow at the score of 11 runs. Opener Pratham Singh was dismissed after scoring 6 runs. Captain Mayank Agarwal was dismissed for 6, Tilak Verma for 5, Riyan Parag for 2 and Kumar Kushagra for zero. The team has lost 5 wickets till lunch and could score only 68 runs. Shashwat Rawat is unbeaten after scoring 21 and Shams Mulani is unbeaten after scoring 19 runs. Vijaykumar Vaishak and Anshul Kamboj have taken 2-2 wickets so far from India C.

India C fast bowler Anshul Kamboj took 2 wickets.

India B vs India D: Padikkal-Bharat close to half-century India D had a great start against India B. The team has scored 98 runs without any loss till lunch on the first day. Openers Devdutt Padikkal is unbeaten on 44 and KS Bharat is unbeaten on 46.

The table topper team will become the champion The India-C team led by Rituraj Gaikwad is at the top of the table with 9 points from 1 win and 1 draw, while the India-B team led by Abhimanyu Easwaran is challenging it at the second place with 7 points. The India-A team led by Mayank Agarwal is on 6 points with one win and one loss in two matches and is still in the title race, while the India-D team led by Shreyas Iyer is out of the race after losing both the matches. In the tournament, 6 points are awarded for a direct win, 3 points for a draw with a lead in the first innings and 1 point for trailing in a draw.

Shreyas, Riyan, Samson and Rinku have last chance The last round of the tournament is the last chance for star players like Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag and Rinku Singh to prove themselves before the current Test season. After this competition, the next first class tournament is the Ranji season from October 11 and by then the team will be announced for the New Zealand Test series starting from October 16.

Ishan Kishan scored a century for India C.

All teams India A: Mayank Agarwal (captain), Riyan Parag, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, Sheikh Rashid, Shams Mulani and Aqib Khan.

India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Sarfaraz Khan, Mushir Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Suyash Prabhudesai and Himanshu Mantri.

India C: Rituraj Gaikwad (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar, Abhishek Porel (wicketkeeper), Baba Indrajit, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vijaykumar Vyak, Anshul Kamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper) and Sandeep Warrier.

India D: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thackeray, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Saurabh Kumar, Vidwat Kaverappa and Nishant Sindhu.