A couple of weeks ago, South Zone beat West Zone in the Duleep Trophy final at Bangalore. On Wednesday, thanks to skipper Mayank Agarwal’s 98, South again had the better of West Zone and beat them by 12 runs in the 50-overs Deodhar Trophy in Puducherry on Wednesday.

Thanks to West’s disciplined bowling, especially left-arm spinners— Parth Bhut (3-25) and Shams Mulani (2-42) and pacer Rajvardhan Hangargekar (2-47), South were bowled out for 206 in 46.4 overs. However, despite a strong batting line-up, West were bundled out for 194 in 36.2 overs.