{"id":117972,"date":"2025-09-06T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117972\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:54:11","slug":"duleep-trophy-jagadeesan-misses-out-on-double-ton-steady-south-zone-end-1st-innings-on-536-vs-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117972\/","title":{"rendered":"Duleep Trophy: Jagadeesan misses out on double ton, steady South Zone end 1st innings on 536 vs NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Narayan Jagadeesan missed out on a well deserved double hundred by three runs as South Zone reached an imposing first innings score of 536 despite a dull second day in their Duleep Trophy semi-final against North Zone here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/ht-img\/img\/2025\/09\/05\/550x309\/405810_1757082395263_1757082403437.webp\" alt=\"Narayan Jagadeesan in action for South Zone during the Duleep Trophy.(AFP)\" title=\"Narayan Jagadeesan in action for South Zone during the Duleep Trophy.(AFP)\"\/>   Narayan Jagadeesan in action for South Zone during the Duleep Trophy.(AFP)    <\/p>\n<p>Starting the day on 297 for three, South Zone nearly batted the entire second day (88.2 overs) and managed only 239 runs while losing the remaining wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Jagadeesan (197, 352 balls) hit 16 boundaries and three sixes before getting run-out. The rest of the South batters never looked like trying to up the ante but did well enough to put up a commendable total.<\/p>\n<p>North batters now have two full days to chase down a target of 537 and book their berth in the final.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the day, South skipper Mohammed Azharuddeen (11) was dismissed off the second delivery of the day bowled by India medium pacer Anshul Kamboj (2\/67 in 24 overs).<\/p>\n<p>However Ricky Bhui (54 off 131 balls) and Jagadeesan didn&#8217;t force the pace during their 87 runs for the fifth wicket which took them 194 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>Jagadeesan, who had added only three boundaries to his overnight 13 was distinctly unlucky when the burly Bhui sold a dummy to the Tamil Nadu keeper-batter.<\/p>\n<p>He pushed a ball towards point in pursuit of quick single as Jagadeesan sprinted towards the striker&#8217;s end only to find the Andhra man rooted to his crease.<\/p>\n<p>In the post-lunch session, Bhui briefly gave the charge, hitting off-spinner Sahil Lotra for a four and a six over long-on.<\/p>\n<p>But when left-arm spinner Nishant Sindhu (5\/125 in 47.2 overs) was brought into the attack, he was out in a meek fashion edging one to rival skipper Ankit Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>Hyderabad spinner Tanay Thyagarajan (58 off 116 balls) then found an able ally in Tamil Nadu pacer Gurjapneet Singh (29 off 81 balls) as the duo added a crucial 63 runs for the eighth wicket which took South past the 500-run mark.<\/p>\n<p>Brief Scores: South Zone 1st Innings 536 in 169.2 overs (Narayan Jagadeesan 197, Tanay Thyagarajan 58, Nishant Sindhu 5\/125) vs North Zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Narayan Jagadeesan missed out on a well deserved double hundred by three runs as South Zone reached an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,56472,48378,56470,49700,56471,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-117972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-score","10":"tag-duleep-trophy","11":"tag-narayan-jagadeesan","12":"tag-north-zone","13":"tag-south-zone","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}