Defending champions North Zone defeated East Zone by 433 runs on the final day of the four-day Duleep Trophy match at the Madhavrao Scindia Ground here on Thursday.

With this win, North Zone moved into the final. East Zone were shot out for a paltry 243 runs, shortly before the tea break after North set a daunting target of 677 for victory.

North medium pacer VRV Singh, who did not turn up for fielding on Wednesday due to fever and body pain, took three of the last four wickets on the final day to hasten East’s collapse.

SCOREBOARD

NORTH ZONE (I Innings): 360
EAST ZONE (I Innings): 143
NORTH ZONE (II Innings): 459/2 declared.
EAST ZONE (II Innings, O/n: 28/1): SS Das lbw C Nanda 33; W Saha b R Bhatia                 2; A Das c U Kaul b V Malik 15; A Mazumdar (run out) 82; M Vardhan c&b A Mishra 83; H Das c (sub) b VRV Singh 4; T Saha b VRV Singh 0; D Mohanty c&b A Mishra 0; R Bose (not  out) 0; SS Paul b VRV Singh 0; N Behera (absent hurt) 0; Extras (LB-4, NB-20) 24; Total (for nine   wickets in 67.3 overs) 243.
Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-51, 3-70, 4-238, 5-242, 6-242, 7-242, 8-243, 9-243.
Bowling: Malik 16-3-63-1, Rajat Bhatia 5-4-2-1, Chaitanya Nanda 12-1-52-1, Amit Mishra 13-4-37-2, Mithun Manhas 9-1-39-0, VRV Singh 11.3-3-46-3.