East Zone took the field with three wins under its belt and thrashed West Zone by eight wickets to win the Syed Mushtaq Ali Inter-Zone Twenty20 league at the Wankhede Stadium here on Saturday.
Virat Singh, with an unbeaten 58, and Ishank Jaggi, who made an attractive 56, starred in the chase.
For West, Sheldon Jackson (52) got going, but once he departed in the the 15th over, West did not have the sturdy men to play the big shots.
The scores:
West Zone: Sheldon Jackson c Virat b Ojha 52, Parthiv Patel lbw b Pradhan 17, Aditya Tare c Arun Karthick b Das 1, Deepak Hooda b Ghosh 19, Prerak Mankad b Das 20, Rujul Bhatt (not out) 36, Irfan Pathan (not out) 2, Extras (lb-1,w-1) 2, Total (for five wkts in 20 overs) 149.
Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-36, 3-76, 4-92, 5-145.
East Zone bowling: Suryakant Pradhan 4-0-28-1, Pritam Das 4-0-25-2, Writtick Chatterjee 3-0-27-0, Sayan Ghosh 4-0-32-1, Amit Verma 2-0-18-0, Pragyan Ojha 3-0-18-1.
East Zone: K.B. Arun Karthick c Parthiv b Thakur 24, Virat Singh (not out) 58, Ishank Jaggi c Parthiv b Thakur 56, Manoj Tiwary (not out) 9; Extras (lb-4, w-2): 6; Total (for two wkts. in 13.4 overs): 153.
Fall of wickets: 1-61, 2-141.
West Zone bowling: Irfan Pathan 2-0-17-0, Shardul Thakur 3-0-31-2, Ishwar Chaudhary 2.4-0-32-0, Shaurya Sanandia 2-0-26-0, Dharmendra Jadeja 2-0-17-0, Prerak Mankad 1-0-10-0, Rujul Bhatt 1-0-16-0 .
