Yuvraj's ton wins North the Deodhar Trophy

North Zone 214 for 6 (Yuvraj 124*) beat South Zone 212 for 9 (Rao 59, Karthik 46, Harbhajan 4-48) by 4 wickets
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An heroic back-to-the-wall hundred by Yuvraj Singh took North Zone to a four-wicket victory and helped them win the Deodhar Trophy at Valsad. Singh walked out to bat with North at 16 for 3, chasing 213 for victory. Yuvraj proceeded to play an astonishing innings, hitting 124 off only 120, and struck 16 fours and three sixes. Ajay Jadeja was the next highest scorer, with 34. Both put on 122 together after Sankinani Vishnuvardhan removed Dinesh Mongia to have North reeling at 38 for 4.

Earlier, Venugopal Rao struck 59 to set up a launch pad of sorts for South Zone, but Harbhajan Singh dismissed him and two others after him to ensure that not many were scored in the final overs.

Central Zone 282 (Raina 84, Jai Yadav 56, Abbas Ali 40) beat West Zone 270 (Agarkar 52, Jadhav 46, Christian 40) by 12 runs
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Central Zone - led by Suresh Raina's 84 - won a close game in Jamnagar, beating West Zone by 12 runs. Central put on 282 after a consistent display by most of the batsmen, and then reduced West to 167 for 7 before defiance by the late order took them close to the total.

Jai P Yadav (56 off 61) added 73 with Raina, who fell at the start of the slog. Raina's knock consumed 81 balls, and he struck five fours and two sixes to help his team clinch third place in the five-team Deodhar Trophy.