da bwin： South Zone beat Central Zone by three runs in a last-over thriller inthe Vijay Hazare (under-16) Trophy tournament at the KL Saini Stadiumat Jaipur on Tuesday
03-Feb-2000South Zone beat Central Zone by three runs in a last-over thriller inthe Vijay Hazare (under-16) Trophy tournament at the KL Saini Stadiumat Jaipur on Tuesday.Replying to South Zone’s total of 198 for 7 in 50 overs, Central wereall out for 195 in the last over of the match. Central Zone lostwickets at regular intervals and were 82 for five. Dixit (29 off 54balls) was involved in a partnership of 34 for the sixth wicket withAfroz Khan (18 off 36 balls). This was followed by a 35 runpartnership off nine overs for the seventh wicket between Dixit and SKUpadhyay (52 not out off 60 balls). A last wicket partnership of 29runs from five overs between SK Upadhyay and Chaudhery (3) proved invain.Earlier South Zone won the toss and elected to bat. They lostthree wickets for 57 before they recovered with the only partnershipof note when Aditya Srikkanth (50 off 80 balls) and Abhinav Kumar (59off 89 balls) added 117 runs for the fourth wicket off 26 overs.With this, Central Zone ended their fixtures with two wins and twolosses from their four games while this was South Zone’s first victoryin three matches.