Overview

• Central Zone captain Dhruv Jurel was asked by selectors to skip the quarterfinal after a groin niggle because he is on the Asia Cup standby list, according to a BCCI source.
• East Zone’s Abhimanyu Easwaran missed the match with flu, handing the captaincy to Riyan Parag for the opener.
• North Zone’s named skipper Shubman Gill sat out with illness and is expected at the BCCI Centre of Excellence for fitness checks before the Asia Cup, with Ankit Kumar leading in his place.
• Rajat Patidar took over Central Zone’s captaincy and struck a blistering Duleep Trophy century — reported as a hundred off roughly 80 balls and 125 off 96 — strengthening his national selection claims.
• Several white-ball and Test squad members featured across teams, with Kuldeep Yadav, Deepak Chahar and Khaleel Ahmed in Central, Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana for North, and Mohammed Shami playing for East.