Duleep Trophy final: Dominant East Zone solidify grip on title

Half-centuries from skipper Ishan Kishan and Shikhar Mohan solidified East Zone's grip on the Duleep Trophy as they finished Day 4 with a humongous <a href="/live-cricket-scorecard/163061/ezone-vs-szone-final-duleep-trophy-2026" class="text-cbTextLink">lead of 584 runs</a>. Kishan, who finished with a match tally of 350 runs, missed his century by 20 runs after Tilak Varma missed his by a solitary run earlier in the morning session. East Zone did put up a fight on the fourth morning by adding 94 runs for their remaining four wickets. CV Milind showed a lot of resistance that aided the overnight unbeaten half-centurion Tilak Varma to continue in the same vein. Tilak kickstarted the day with a couple of boundaries off Mohammed Shami in the very first over even though South Zone had just taken the new ball. At the other end, Milind got going with a neat cover drive against Mukesh Kumar.