Duleep Trophy 2025 Final, Day 3: Yash Rathod’s 194 Puts Central Zone in Command, South Zone Still Trails

The final match of Duleep Trophy 2025 is being played in Bengaluru, where there is a close competition between Central Zone and South Zone. At the end of the third day’s play, South Zone is in trouble.

Central Zone scored a blistering 511 runs in their first innings, while South Zone was bowled out for just 149 runs in the first innings.

Now in the second innings, they are at 129/2 and are still trailing by 233 runs. At the time of stumps, Ricky Bhui is at the crease with 26 runs and Smran R with 37 runs.

Duleep Trophy 2025, Final, Day 3: SZ vs CZ Highlights

At the start of the match, Central Zone won the toss and chose to bowl first. South Zone’s batting lineup collapsed quickly. Tanmay Agarwal scored 31 runs, but the rest of the batsmen flopped.

Saransh Jain bowled brilliantly and took 5 wickets, while Kumar Karthikeya took 4 wickets. Ricky Bhui is the captain from South Zone, but he too could score only 15 runs in the first innings.

Now let’s talk about Central Zone’s batting. Yash Rathod set the innings on fire! He played a brilliant innings of 194 runs, which included 17 fours and 2 sixes. Rajat Patidar also scored a century of 101 runs.

Saransh Jain scored 69 runs and Deepak Chahar played a quick innings of 37 runs. Among the bowlers of South Zone, Gurjapneet Singh and Ankit Sharma took 4-4 wickets, but they could not stop the score.

Now in the second innings of South Zone, Mohit Kale scored 38 and Tanmay Agarwal scored 26 runs, but both were out. Smran R and Ricky Bhui are now continuing the fight.

If these two score big, then the match can be turned around. But Central Zone bowlers like Kuldeep Sen and Saransh Jain are in form, so it seems difficult for South Zone to survive.