2005–06 Duleep Trophy

2005–06 Duleep Trophy
Dates20 October 2005 – 14 November 2005
Administrator(s)BCCI
Cricket formatFirst-class cricket
Tournament format(s)Round-robin and knockout
ChampionsWest Zone (16th title)
Participants6
Matches7
Most runsWasim Jaffer (WZ) (309)[1]
Most wicketsZaheer Khan (WZ) (23)[2]

The 2005–06 Duleep Trophy was the 45th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament contested by five zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone. In addition to these five teams, a guest team (Zimbabwe Cricket Union President's XI) also featured in the tournament.

West Zone won the title, defeating East Zone in the final.

Results

Group stage

Source: Duleep Trophy, 2005–06. CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 November 2023. (subscription required).

Group A results
  • South Zone v West Zone (20–23 October). West Zone (4pts) beat South Zone (0pts) by 7 wickets.
  • Central Zone v South Zone (27–30 October). Central Zone (4pts) beat South Zone (0pts) by 8 wickets.
  • Central Zone v West Zone (4–7 November). West Zone (4pts) beat Central Zone (0pts) by 7 wickets.
Group A points table
Team Matches Won Lost Drawn (WF) Drawn (LF) No result Points Quotient
West Zone 2 2 0 0 0 0 8 1.548
Central Zone 2 1 1 0 0 0 4 1.031
South Zone 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0.622
Group A results
  • East Zone v North Zone (20–23 October). East Zone (4pts) beat North Zone (0pts) by 9 wickets.
  • North Zone v Zimbabwe A (27–30 October). North Zone (5pts) beat Zimbabwe A (0pts) by an innings and 7 runs.
  • East Zone v Zimbabwe A (4–7 November). East Zone (5pts) beat Zimbabwe A (0pts) by an innings and 17 runs.
Group B points table
Team Matches Won Lost Drawn (WF) Drawn (LF) No result Points Quotient
East Zone 2 2 0 0 0 0 9 2.047
North Zone 2 1 1 0 0 0 5 1.041
ZCU President's XI 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0.459

Final

12–14 November 2005
Scorecard
v
150 (55.3 overs)
Arindam Das 56
Sairaj Bahutule 3/27
157 (64 overs)
Parthiv Patel 43
Saurasish Lahiri 4/35
181 (59.1 overs)
Laxmi Ratan Shukla 66
Zaheer Khan 4/41
175/5 (58.3 overs)
Jacob Martin 52*
Shib Paul 2/38
West Zone won by 5 wickets
Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad
  • East Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

References

  1. ^ "Batting and Fielding in Duleep Trophy 2005/06 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Bowling in Duleep Trophy 2005/06 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 June 2016.