Aakash Chopra

Mumbai: The five-day Duleep Trophy final between defending champions North Zone and hosts West Zone promises a battle between two evenly-matched sides at the Wankhede Stadium from Tuesday.

Both the teams in the domestic first class season-ending clash have batsmen capable of playing big knocks, as was evident in their previous league matches which both won comfortably.

TEAMS

North Zone: Mithun Manhas (capt), Aakash Chopra, Shikhar Dhawvan, Karan Goel, Yashpal Singh, Rajat Bhatia, Uday Kaul (wk), Ashok Thakur, Vikramjeet Malik, Amit Mishra, V.R.V. Singh, Chetanya Nanda, Ravi Inder Singh, Joginder Sharma and Samiullah Beigh.

West Zone: Sahil Kukreja, Wasim Jaffer, Ajinkya Rahane, Parthiv Patel (capt/wk), Cheteshwar Pujara, Pinal Shah, Rakesh Dhruv, Siddharth Trivedi, Mohnish Parmar, Yusuf Pathan, Sandeep Jobanputra, Rakesh Solanki, Ashraf Makda, Samad Fallah and Harshad Khadiwale.

Umpires: A.V. Jayaprakash and Suhas Phadkar. (PTI)