North Zone routed South Zone by eight wickets on the third day of their Duleep Trophy match at the Sardar Patel Gujarat stadium at Motera here on Monday.

Given the target of 70 run in their second innings, North Zone batsmen achieved it in 18.3 overs losing two wickets in the process. The low-scoring four-day game was over on the third day itself with North Zone bagging five points.

North Zone’s K Goyal scored 23 runs and 17 extras given by the South Zone bowlers helped the former reach the target without much problem.

Earlier, North Zone bowlers bundled out the South Zone for 211 runs in the second innings. North Zone had a lead of 142 runs after the end of the first innings.South Zone batsmen, starting from their overnight score of 95 for two wickets could not hold the ground against the North bowlers as they failed to make substantial partnerships.

Swapnil Asnodkar was the top South scorer with 37 while D Kalyankrishna remained unbeaten on 31.
South Zone’s stumper Thilak Naidu, who had hurt his arm on Sunday did not bat.
For the North Zone, leg-spinner Amit Misra claimed four wickets.

Score board

SOUTH ZONE (I Innings): 157
NORTH ZONE (I Innings): 299
SOUTH ZONE (II Innings, 95/2): Ravi Teja c Rana b Malik 15, S Asnodkar c Thakur b Rana 37, M Vijay c Kaul b Mishra 39, Badrinath lbw Malik 22, A Yadav c Kaul b Bhatia 0, R Ashwin c Kaul b Mishra 16, Vinay Kumar c & b Mishra 6, Kalyankrishna (not out) 31, P Ojha c Manhas b Mishra 6, NC Aiyappa c Chopra b Bhatia 24, Thilak Naidu (DNB). Extras: (LB-3, W-1, NB-11) 15. Total: (all out, 67 overs) 211.
Fall of wickets: 1-24, 2-78, 3-121, 4-123, 5-123, 6-143, 7-150, 8-156, 9-211.
Bowling: Malik 20-4-67-2, Thakur 7-2-10-0, Bhatia 16-5-39-2, Rana 9-0-37-1, Mishra 14-2-51-4, Manhas 1-0-04-0.
NORTH ZONE (II Innings): A Chopra lbw Aiyappa 11, K Goel (not out) 23, S Rana c Yadav b Kalyankrishna 8, Yashpal Singh (not out) 13. Extras (B-12, LB-4, W-1) 17. Total (for 2 wkts; 18.3 overs) 72.
Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Chopra), 2-47 (Rana).
Bowling: Vinay Kumar 5-0-12-0, NC Aiyappa 7-4-14-1, Kalyankrishna 4.3-0-11-1, P Ojha 2-0-19-0.