A Deodhar Trophy match between East Zone and North Zone at Ludhiana that started two hours 20 minutes late was abandoned at 2 p.m. due to rain, the points being equally shared between the two sides.

East Zone, winning the toss, put their opponents in to bat. North Zone's innings was restricted to a maximum of 33.3 overs due to the truncated nature of the game. As the situation warranted, the batsmen threw everything at the leather during that innings. Manish Sharma, coming off an unbeaten 99 in his previous match, made 64 off 74 deliveries, striking 10 fours before becoming the third wicket to fall.

Mithun Manhas hit an unbeaten 22 off 19 deliveries that, along with a couple of other scores in the 20s from the middle order, took North's total to 179/5 in their allotted overs.

Another rain interruption revised the target for East Zone to 167 off 31 overs, a situation that guaranteed some exciting cricket. But when East were on 25/2 after eight overs, Ashish Nehra taking both wickets, the game was stopped due to further rain.

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