2023 Deodhar Trophy

Cricket tournament

Cricket tournament

The 2023 Deodhar Trophy was the 48th edition of the Deodhar Trophy, a domestic List A cricket competition that was played in India.^[1] It took place from 24 July to 3 August 2023.^[2] The tournament was played across six zones, forming part of the 2023 Indian domestic cricket season, announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in April 2023.^[3] Deodhar Trophy was last held in 2019,^[4] and this was also the first time it was played in zonal format since 2014.^[5][6]

In the final, South Zone defeated East Zone by 45 runs to win their ninth title.^[7]

Teams

The following teams took part in the tournament:^[8]

• Central Zone
• East Zone
• North Zone
• North East Zone
• South Zone
• West Zone

Squads

Source:^[9]

• Mohsin Khan, Pheiroijam Jotin and Prithvi Shaw were withdrawn from the squad ahead of the series and were replaced by Saransh Jain, Priyojit Singh Kangabam and Kathan Patel respectively.
• Mayank Dagar, Shubham Arora and Abhijeet Saket were added as cover for Harshit Rana, Nishant Sindhu and Riyan Parag, who were not available for the opening fixture due to 2023 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup.
• Aryan Juyal and Devdutt Padikkal were replaced by Pratham Singh and Sai Sudharsan respectively ahead of the fourth round of matches.

Group stage

Points table

Matches

• South Zone won the toss and elected to bat.
• North Zone were set a revised target of 246 runs from 28 overs.

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• East Zone won the toss and elected to field.

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• West Zone won the toss and elected to field.
• Anup Ahlawat and Jehu Anderson (North East Zone) both made their List-A debut.

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• Central Zone won the toss and elected to field.

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• East Zone won the toss and elected to field.

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• West Zone won the toss and elected to field.

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• East Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

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• Central Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

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• North East Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

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• North Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

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• East Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

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• Central Zone won the toss and elected to field.

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• North East Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

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• East Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

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• Central Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

Final

• South Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

References

1. "India's domestic season takes off in June". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
2. "Duleep Trophy to kick off India's earliest ever domestic season on June 28". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
3. "BCCI announces India's domestic season for 2023-24". Board of Control for Cricket in India. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
4. "Deodhar Trophy returns after a gap of 3 years; Ranji Trophy to begin from January 5". Circle of Cricket. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
5. "Deodhar Trophy set to return after 3 years per BCCI's tentative 2023/24 schedule". Sportskeeda. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
6. "BCCI wakes up finally, to live stream Duleep Trophy final and Deodhar games". The Times of India. 10 July 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
7. "Deodhar Trophy 2023 Final, Highlights: South Zone beats East Zone by 45 runs; Kunnummal stars with century". SportStar. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
8. "India's domestic cricket season 2023-24 to begin with Duleep Trophy from June 28". The Times of India. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
9. "2023 Deodhar Trophy Squads". ESPNcricinfo.

External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo