Indian Cricket Team Updates

Young Baba Aparajith scored his maiden century in limited overs cricket as South Zone beat East by 11 runs in the Deodhar Trophy quarter-final in Guwahati on Sunday. South will now take on West Zone in the second semi-final slated for Tuesday. Opting to bat the Nehru Stadium in Guwahati, South Zone posted a healthy total of 284 for five in 50 overs riding on Aparajith's 121. The India colts player played 129 balls and hit 10 fours and three sixes in his innings. In reply, East managed to 273 for seven with skipper Wriddhiman Saha top-scoring with 77 and Ishank Jaggi managing to hit 55. It was the 89 runs given by the East Zone bowlers in the final 10 overs of the South innings that turned out to be decisive. Apart from Aparajith, the other notable contributer was former India opener Robin Uthappa who managed a patient 48 off 75 balls with six fours. Having lost other opener Lokesh Rahul (0) in the very second over, Uthappa and No 3 batsman Aparajith added 95 ...

Gautam Gambhir will lead North Zone in the DB Deodhar Trophy one-day limited overs inter zonal knock-out cricket tournament to be played from March 16 to 19 at Mohali and Dharamsala. South Zone squad: Gautam Gambhir (c), Parvinder Awana, Rishi Dhawan, Paras Dogra, Manpreet Gony, Ravi Inder Singh, Siddarth Kaul, Chandan Madan (wk), Mandeep Singh, Amit Mishra, Rajat Paliwal, Parvez Rasool, Sandeep Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Yuvraj Singh

\ Suresh Raina will lead Central Zone in the DB Deodhar Trophy one-day limited overs inter zonal knock-out cricket tournament to be played from March 16 to 19 at Mohali and Dharamsala. South Zone squad: Suresh Raina (c), Prashant Gupta. Akshdeep Nath, Robin Bist, Piyush Chawla, Imtiaz Ahmed, Mohammad Kaif, Ashok Menaria, Ali Murtaza, Naman Ojha (wk), Ishwar Pandey, Amit Paunikar, Ankit Rajpoot, Jalaj Saxena, Shrikant Wagh

Gujarat's Parthiv Patel will lead West Zone in the DB Deodhar Trophy one-day limited overs inter zonal knock-out cricket tournament to be played from March 16 to 19 at Mohali and Dharamsala.  Mumbai's Ajinkya Rahane would be his deputy, said zonal selection panel convener Nitin Dalal on Tuesday.  West would clash with East in the semifinal on March 17 at Mohali, the day after South and Central take on each other in the lone quarterfinal at the same venue.  The other semifinal, between North and the winners of the quarterfinal between South and Central, is to be held at Dharamsala which will also host the final on March 19.  West Zone squad:  Parthiv Patel (Capt), Sheldon Jackson, Ambati Rayudu, Siddesh Lad, Kedar Jadhav, Yusuf Pathan, Abhishek Nayar, Munaf Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Rush Kalaria, Rakesh Dhruv, Kamlesh Makwana, Manpreet Juneja, Akshay Darekar, Vijay Zol.

Bengal's Wriddhiman Saha will lead a 15– member East Zone squad for their quarter-final match against South Zone in the Deodhar Trophy on March 10 at Nehru Stadium in Guwahati. The side will reach Guwahati on March 7. S Saikia from Assam will be the coach of the team. East Zone Squad: Pallav Das and Shiv Shankar Roy (both Assam), Ishank Jaggi (Jharkhand), Gobind Poddar (Odisha), Saurabh Tiwari (Jharkhand), Mani Shankar Mura Singh ( Tripura), Pritam Das (Assam), Bassanta Mahanty (Odisha), Abu Nachim (Assam), Sami Ahmed (Bengal), Biplab Samantray (Odisha), Gokul Sharma (Assam), S Nadim (Jharkhand) and Iresh Saxena (Bengal).

Tamil Nadu's Dinesh Karthik will lead a 15-member South Zone squad in their quarter-final match against East Zone in the Deodhar Trophy in Guwahati on Sunday. South Zone squad: K Dinesh Karthik (capt, Tamil Nadu), R Vinay Kumar (vice-capt, Karnataka), Robin Uthappa (Karnataka), K L Rahul (Karnataka), Sachin Baby (Kerala), Stuart Binny (Karnataka), C M Gautam (wk, Karnataka), B Aparajith (Tamil Nadu), Abhimanyu Mithun (Karnataka), B Sudhakar (Andhra Pradesh), K Srikar Bharat (Andhra Pradesh), S Sandeep Warrier (Kerala), Ashish Reddy (Hyderabad), G H Vihari (Hyderabad) and Sanju S Viswanathan (Kerala). Reserves: Rohan Prem (Kerala), Sagun Kamat (Goa), Rahil S Shah (Tamil Nadu), Prasanth Parameswaran (Kerala). Team Officials: M Senthilnathan (Coach), R Ananth (Physio), K Manoj Kumar (Trainer) and K Sriram (Manager).