New Delhi
In the final match of Duleep Trophy 2026, the batsmen of East Zone performed amazingly. On the second day of the match, the South Zone bowlers had to work hard to take wickets. Despite this, the team faced only disappointment.
After winning the toss and batting first, the East Zone batsmen made the South Zone bowlers sweat. In this great match going on at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, East Zone has scored a huge mountain of 708 runs in its first innings.
Ishan Kishan was the biggest hero who took the team to this score. Ishan Kishan played a explosive inning of 270 runs in 334 balls and completely put the match in the hands of East Zone. The biggest specialty of Ishan Kishan’s batting was that he kept changing his style of play according to the situation of the match.
Ishan Kishan scored a double century
Ishan Kishan had completed his double century in just 300 balls. Due to ill health during the innings, he retired hurt and went out of the field at the score of 250 runs. However, his spirit did not diminish and he came to bat again in the last session and added 20 more runs to his team’s account.
25 years old history remained in the making
Even though Ishaan missed his first triple century, his innings made everyone a fan. In the history of Duleep Trophy, till now only two batsmen, Raman Lamba and Gagan Khoda, have been able to score triple centuries. Ishaan had a great opportunity to end this 25-year long wait, but he was out for 270 runs.
Became the fourth team to do so in the final
Apart from Ishan Kishan, Kumar Kushagra also batted brilliantly and scored a brilliant century and took the team beyond 600. This is only the third time in the history of Duleep Trophy final that a team has scored more than 700 runs. Earlier, South Zone had achieved this feat in 1986, North Zone in 1987 and 1991.
However, this score of 708 runs is not the biggest score of the final. This record still holds in the name of North Zone, which had scored 868 runs against West Zone in the 1987 final. Now a big mountain of runs is standing in front of the South Zone. East Zone has completely tightened its grip on the match and South Zone will now need a big miracle to get out of this crisis.