![]() The first match of Duleep Trophy, 1995-96 was played between the teams of Central Zone and East Zone and the match was held at Alwar from 11-13 October, 1995. The Central Zone captain, P Amre won the toss and took the decision of batting first in the match. Amre got good support from his batsmen, as the Central Zone batsmen scored a good total of 356 runs in their first innings. Amre scored 152 runs for his team, while Avinash Kumar took 6 wickets for 94 runs, for East Zone. In reply to the first innings total of Central Zone, the East Zone batsmen failed miserably to apply themselves on the crease and got all out for only 154 runs. N Hirwani took 5 wickets for 41 runs on behalf of Central Zone in East Zone's first innings. After being asked to follow on in the second innings by Amre, the East Zone batsmen played a bit better, but got all out for a moderate score of 231 runs. Thus, Central Zone required only 30 runs in the second innings to win the match and the team scored 32 runs, without losing a single wicket. The Central Zone team earned 6 points by winning the match with a huge margin of 10 wickets. The teams of North Zone and South Zone played against each other in the second match of Duleep Trophy, 1995-96 and the match took place at Nagpur from 11-14 October, 1995. Winning the toss, the South Zone skipper, W Raman invited the North Zone team to bat first in the match. The decision was proved to be a perfect one, as the South Zone bowlers did a great job to restrict North Zone's first innings to a mere score of only 200 runs. While replying to the small first innings total of South Zone, the North Zone batsmen batted wonderfully and scored a huge total of 424 runs in their first innings. A Kumble (111) and the skipper, W Raman (103) scored centuries for South Zone, while A Kapoor took 7 wickets for 144 runs on behalf of North Zone. Playing with a huge deficit of 224 runs, the North Zone batsmen completely failed to bat well in their second innings and they got all out for a tiny score of only 123 runs. As a result, the South Zone team won the match with a huge margin of an innings and 101 runs and also earned 6 points. The South Zone team appeared in the third match of Duleep Trophy, 1995-96 also and this time, it played against the Central Zone at Bhilai from 21-25 October, 1995. There was no play in the first three days of the match and the match actually started on the fourth day. The toss of the match was won by the captain of South Zone, W Raman and he took the decision of fielding first in the match. Being put into bat first by the opponent skipper, the Central Zone batsmen scored a good total of 373 runs for 6 wickets, before their skipper declared the first innings. However, when the South Zone team reached the score of 234-4 in the first innings, the stipulated duration of the match got over. The match officials awarded 1 point, each to South Zone and Central Zone for the drawn match. ![]() The fifth match of Duleep Trophy, 1995-96 saw the teams of Central Zone and North Zone playing against each other at Bhilwara from 10-12 November, 1995. The Central Zone skipper, R Shamshad won the toss and took the decision of batting first in the match. It was proved to be a right decision, as the Central Zone batsmen played wonderfully and scored a huge total of 404 runs in their first innings. Y Ghare scored a wonderful century of 122 runs for Central Zone in the first innings. After conceding such huge runs to Central Zone, the North Zone team failed to bat well in the first innings and got all out for a moderate score of 259 runs. Though, the team had a huge lead of 145 runs in the first innings, the Central Zone batsmen failed miserably to play well in their second innings and surprisingly got all out for a petite score of only 67 runs. B Vij took 6 wickets for only 19 runs on behalf of North Zone in Central Zone's second innings. However, the North Zone batsmen also failed to play well in their second innings, while chasing a target of 212 runs and they got all out for 112 runs. Thus, the Central Zone team earned 6 points from the match, by clinching a huge victory of 100 runs. The South Zone and West Zone teams appeared in the sixth match of Duleep Trophy, 1995-96 and the two teams played the match at Alwar from 10-14 November, 1995. The toss of the match was won by the South Zone captain, R Dravid and he took the decision of batting first in the match. The South Zone batsmen responded well to their captain's decision and scored a good total of 313 runs in their first innings, before getting all out. The West Zone batsmen faced a lot of troubles while batting in their first innings and they got all out for a small score of only 181 runs. After attaining a good lead of 132 runs in the first innings, the South Zone batsmen played well in their second innings also and scored 293-3 before Dravid declared the innings. The West Zone batsmen required 426 runs in the second innings to win the match; however, they could not achieve the target and got all out for only 282 runs. Thus, the South Zone team comfortably won the match with a margin of 144 runs and also earned 6 points from the match. The seventh match of Duleep Trophy, 1995-96 was played between the teams of East Zone and South Zone and the two teams played the match at Lucknow from 19-22 November, 1995. Winning the toss, the South Zone skipper, W Raman decided to bat first in the match, though, he could not get much response from his batsmen. The South Zone batsmen failed to play well and got all out for only 165 runs in their first innings. However, the South Zone bowlers bowled brilliantly and restricted East Zone's first innings to only 159 runs for providing their team a 7 runs lead in the first innings. The South Zone batsmen played much better in their second innings, after attaining a lead of 7 runs over East Zone in the first innings. They scored a good total of 360 runs in their second innings and thus set a target of 368 runs to win for East Zone. P Vaidya took a total of 10 wickets on behalf of East Zone in South Zone two innings. The East Zone batsmen once again failed to play well and got all out for 147 runs in their second innings. Thus, South Zone earned 6 points from the match by winning it with a margin of 219 runs. ![]() The Central Zone and West Zone teams were involved in the ninth match of Duleep Trophy, 1995-96 and the two teams played the match at Bikaner from 28-30 November, 1995. The captain of Central Zone, P Amre won the toss and took the decision of batting first in the match. The decision was proved to be a completely wrong one, as none of the Central Zone batsmen could plat well and they got all out for a small score of 127 runs in the first innings. The West Zone batsmen batted wonderfully in their first innings and scored a huge total of 352 runs for taking a huge lead of 225 runs over Central Zone. R Chauhan took 5 wickets for 120 runs on behalf of Central Zone in West Zone's first innings. Trailing by a huge margin of 225 runs, the Central Zone batsmen once again failed to bat well and got all out for a score of 180 runs in their second innings. V Buch took 5 wickets for 55 runs, for West Zone in Central Zone's second innings. Thus, the West Zone team won the match with a wonderful margin of an innings and 45 runs and earned 6 points, as well. The last and tenth match of Duleep Trophy, 1995-96 was played between the teams of East Zone and North Zone and the two teams played the match at Lucknow from 28 November-01 December, 1995. The East Zone skipper, S Karim took the decision of batting first in the match, after winning the toss. The East Zone batsmen failed to response well to their captain's decision, as they got all out for a small score of only 184 runs in their first innings. The North Zone batsmen replied wonderfully to the first innings total of East Zone and they scored a huge total of 381 runs in their first innings. Though the East Zone batsmen batted well while playing with a huge deficit of 197 runs, they could not get a huge score and got all out for 284 runs in their second innings. Thus, the North Zone team required only 88 runs in the second innings to win the match and the team eventually scored 92 runs by losing 2 wickets. The North Zone team won the match with a wonderful margin of 8 wickets and also earned 6 points from the match. After the completion of all the league matches, the tournament officials calculated the points earned by each teams. The calculation revealed that the South Zone team has earned the highest 19 points from the league matches and hence, South Zone was declared as the winner of the Duleep Trophy, 1995-96. |
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