2013–14 Deodhar Trophy

2013–14 Deodhar Trophy was the 41st season of the Deodhar Trophy, a List A cricket tournament contested by 5 zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone.

2013–14 Deodhar Trophy

Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	List A cricket
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Host(s)	Visakhapatnam
Champions	West Zone (12th title)
Participants	5
Matches	4
Most runs	Cheteshwar Pujara (WZ) (135)
Most wickets	Piyush Chawla (CZ) (9)

Schedule

The 2013–14 Deodhar Trophy consisted of four matches played between the teams, where the two teams that performed the worst in the 2012–13 season of the Deodhar Trophy, East Zone and Central Zone, had to play each other in an additional knockout game to progress to the semifinals.

The schedule:

1. 23 March - Quarterfinal - Central Zone vs East Zone
2. 24 March - Semifinal1 - North Zone vs South Zone
3. 25 March - Semifinal2 - West Zone vs Winner Quarterfinal
4. 27 March - Final - Winner Semifinal1 vs Winner Semifinal2

Squads

Squads
Central Zone	East Zone	North Zone	South Zone	West Zone
Faiz Fazal	Ishank Jaggi	Gautam Gambhir	Robin Uthappa	Kedar Devdhar
Jalaj Saxena	Parvez Aziz	Virender Sehwag	Murali Vijay	Parthiv Patel (wk)
Shalabh Srivastava	Shreevats Goswami (wk)	Unmukt Chand	Lokesh Rahul	Cheteshwar Pujara (c)
Naman Ojha (wk)	Manoj Tiwary	Prashant Chopra	Baba Aparajith	Ambati Rayudu
Mahesh Rawat (wk)	Saurabh Tiwary	Nitin Saini (wk)	Manish Pandey	Kedar Jadhav
Akshdeep Nath	Natraj Behera	Mandeep Singh	Dinesh Karthik (wk)	Arpit Vasavada
Rongsen Jonathan	Kumar Deobrat	Nikhil Gangta	Ricky Bhui	Sushant Marathe (wk)
Urvesh Patel (wk)	Wriddhiman Saha (wk)	Rajat Paliwal	Sanju Samson	Suryakumar Yadav
Amit Paunikar	Laxmi Ratan Shukla (c)	Milind Kumar	Karun Nair	Yusuf Pathan
Puneet Yadav	Shahbaz Nadeem	Gurkeerat Singh	Sagun Kamat	Akshar Patel
Ashish Yadav	Samar Quadri	Parvez Rasool	Pragyan Ojha	Jesal Karia
Jitesh Sharma (wk)	Deepak Behera	Rishi Dhawan	Rahil Shah	Dhawal Kulkarni
Piyush Chawla (c)	Abu Nechim	Harbhajan Singh (c)	Vinay Kumar (c)	Jasprit Bumrah
Karn Sharma	Ashok Dinda	Avishek Sinha	Abhimanyu Mithun	Samad Fallah
Anureet Singh	Rahul Shukla	Abhishek Sakuja	Yo Mahesh	Jaydev Unadkat
Ishwar Pandey		Siddarth Kaul	Prasanth Parameswaran
Umesh Yadav		Ashish Nehra
Krishnakant Upadhyay		Ishant Sharma
Amit Mishra		Suraj Yadav

Results

Quarterfinal

23 March 2014 Scorecard

East Zone 194 (46.2 overs)	v	Central Zone 198/8 (43 overs)
Kumar Deobrat 39 (47) Piyush Chawla 5/38 (10.2 overs)		Naman Ojha 65* (84) Abu Nechim 3/36 (9 overs)

Central Zone won by 2 wickets ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam Player of the match: Naman Ojha (CZ)

• East Zone won the toss and elected to bat
• Central Zone advanced to the semifinal

Semifinal 1

24 March 2014 Scorecard

North Zone 265/7 (50 overs)	v	South Zone 165 (36.3 overs)
Rajat Paliwal 107* (113) Vinay Kumar 3/57 (10 overs)		Karun Nair 51* (57) Parvez Rasool 3/15 (4.3 overs)

North Zone won by 100 runs ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam Player of the match: Rajat Paliwal (NZ)

• South Zone won the toss and elected to field
• North Zone advanced to the final

Semifinal 2

25 March 2014 Scorecard

West Zone 233/9 (50 overs)	v	Central Zone 191 (44.3 overs)
Yusuf Pathan 70 (57) Piyush Chawla 4/54 (12 overs)		Shalabh Srivastava 65 (115) Dhawal Kulkarni 4/39 (11 overs)

West Zone won by 42 runs ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam Player of the match: Dhawal Kulkarni (WZ)

• West Zone won the toss and elected to field
• West Zone advanced to the final

Final

27 March 2014 Scorecard

West Zone 281/3 (50 overs)	v	North Zone 148 (37.1 overs)
Kedar Devdhar 94 (101) Rishi Dhawan 2/46 (11 overs)		Mandeep Singh 37 (66) Arpit Vasavada 3/20 (6.1 overs)

West Zone won by 133 runs ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam Player of the match: Kedar Devdhar (WZ)

• West Zone won the toss and elected to bat
• West Zone won the Deodhar Trophy for 2013-14

External links

• ESPNcricinfo page