# 2014–15 Duleep Trophy

2014–15 Duleep Trophy was the 54th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament contested by 5 zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone. Central Zone won the tournament after beating South Zone by 9 runs in the final at Delhi.

## Schedule

The 2014–15 Duleep Trophy consisted of four matches played between the teams, where the two teams that performed the worst in the 2013–14 season of the Duleep Trophy, East Zone and West Zone, had to play each other in an additional knockout game to progress to the semifinals.
The schedule:
* 15–18 October - Quarterfinal - East Zone vs West Zone
* 22–25 October - Semifinal1 - Central Zone vs North Zone
* 22–25 October - Semifinal2 - South Zone vs Winner Quarterfinal
* 29 October-2 November - Final - Winner Semifinal1 vs Winner Semifinal2

## Squads

| Central Zone | East Zone | North Zone | South Zone | West Zone |
| Piyush Chawla (c) Robin Bist Faiz Fazal Arindam Ghosh Ashok Menaria Amit Mishra Naman Ojha (wk) Ishwar Pandey Mahesh Rawat (wk) Jalaj Saxena Karn Sharma Shalabh Shrivastava Anureet Singh Pankaj Singh Kuldeep Yadav | Manoj Tiwary (c) Natraj Behera Sudip Chatterjee Ashok Dinda Rana Dutta Basant Mohanty Shahbaz Nadeem Abu Nechim Rameez Nemat Govind Podder Samar Quadri Wriddhiman Saha (wk) Gokul Sharma Laxmi Shukla Saurabh Tiwary | Harbhajan Singh (c) Parvinder Awana Samiullah Beigh Yuzvendra Chahal Rishi Dhawan Gautam Gambhir Rajat Paliwal Harshal Patel Parvez Rasool Nitin Saini (wk) Virender Sehwag Gurkeerat Singh Jiwanjot Singh Mandeep Singh Yuvraj Singh | Vinay Kumar (c) Baba Aparajith Amogh Desai Shreyas Gopal VA Jagadeesh Dinesh Karthik (wk) Abhimanyu Mithun Abhinav Mukund Pragyan Ojha Ramaswamy Prasanna KL Rahul Malolan Rangarajan Dwaraka Ravi Teja HS Sharath Robin Uthappa Hanuma Vihari | Cheteshwar Pujara (c) Ankit Bawne Jasprit Bumrah Akshay Darekar Harshad Khadiwale Dhawal Kulkarni Shrikant Mundhe Akshar Patel Parthiv Patel (wk) Yusuf Pathan Aditya Tare (wk) Shardul Thakur Saurabh Wakaskar Suryakumar Yadav Vijay Zol |

## Results

| Quarterfinal | Quarterfinal | Quarterfinal | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final |
| | | | South Zone | South Zone | W | | | |
| | | | East Zone | East Zone | | | | |
| East Zone | East Zone | W | East Zone | East Zone | | | | |
| West Zone | West Zone | | | | | | | |
| West Zone | West Zone | | | | | South Zone | South Zone | |
| | | | | | | Central Zone | Central Zone | W |
| | | | Central Zone | Central Zone | FIL | | | |
| | | | North Zone | North Zone | | | | |

### Quarterfinal

* 15–18 October Scorecard
* East Zone won by 102 runs CH Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan (Ind) and Mick Martell (Aus) Player of the match: Basant Mohanty (EZ)
* West Zone won the toss and elected to field.

### Semifinal 1

* 22–25 October Scorecard
* Match drawn; Central Zone advanced on first innings lead PCA Stadium, Mohali Umpires: Mick Martell (Aus) and Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) Player of the match: Naman Ojha (CZ)
* Central Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

### Semifinal 2

* 22–25 October Scorecard
* South Zone won by an innings and 118 runs CH Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Pashchim Pathak and Shavir Tarapore (both Ind) Player of the match: Robin Uthappa (SZ)
* East Zone won the toss and elected to field.

### Final

* 29 October–2 November Scorecard
* Central Zone won by 9 runs Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Umpires: Anil Chaudhary and K Srinath (both Ind) Player of the match: KL Rahul (SZ)
* Central Zone won the toss and elected to bat.