# 2014–15 Deodhar Trophy

2014–15 Deodhar Trophy was the 42nd season of the Deodhar Trophy, a List A cricket tournament contested by the five zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone. The tournament consisted of four matches, all of which were hosted by the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
East Zone won the tournament after beating the defending champions West Zone in the final by 24 runs.

## Schedule

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

## Squads

| Central Zone | East Zone | North Zone | South Zone | West Zone |
| Piyush Chawla (c) Anand Bais Swapnil Bandiwar Mukul Dagar Arjit Gupta Abhishek Kaushik Ashok Menaria Akshdeep Nath Ishwar Pandey Mahesh Rawat (wk) Jalaj Saxena Jitesh Sharma (wk) Anureet Singh Pankaj Singh Kuldeep Yadav | Manoj Tiwary (c) Parvez Aziz Deepak Behera Pritam Das Kumar Deobrat Ashok Dinda Shreevats Goswami (wk) Ishank Jaggi Sourashish Lahiri Shahbaz Nadeem Rahul Shukla Arabind Singh Virat Singh Saurabh Tiwary | Harbhajan Singh (c) Unmukt Chand Rishi Dhawan Taruwar Kohli Milind Kumar Amit Mishra Parvez Rasool Sandeep Sharma Mohit Sharma Gurkeerat Singh Mandeep Singh Yuvraj Singh Vikas Tokas Nakul Verma (wk) Manan Vohra | Vinay Kumar (c) Mayank Agarwal Baba Aparajith Sachin Baby Stuart Binny Amogh Desai Darshan Misal Abhimanyu Mithun Karun Nair Manish Pandey Ashish Reddy Sanju Samson (wk) CV Stephen Robin Uthappa (wk) Amit Yadav | Yusuf Pathan (c) Ankit Bawne Deepak Hooda Shreyas Iyer Sheldon Jackson (wk) Kedar Jadhav Domnic Joseph Rush Kalaria Dhawal Kulkarni Akshar Patel Smit Patel (wk) Ambati Rayudu Shardul Thakur Arpit Vasavada Suryakumar Yadav |

## Results

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

### Quarterfinal

* 29 November 2014 Scorecard
| South Zone 296/9 (50 overs) | v | Central Zone 180 (36.3 overs) |
| Baba Aparajith 113 (105) Pankaj Singh 5/45 (10 overs) | | Arjit Gupta 66 (49) Vinay Kumar 3/8 (6 overs) |
* South Zone won by 116 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
* Central Zone won the toss and elected to field
* South Zone advanced to the semifinals

### Semifinal 1

* 30 November 2014 Scorecard
| East Zone 273/8 (50 overs) | v | North Zone 221 (47.1 overs) |
| Manoj Tiwary 151 (121) Sandeep Sharma 3/49 (10 overs) | | Gurkeerat Singh 83 (99) Sourashish Lahiri 3/41 (10 overs) |
* East Zone won by 52 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
* North Zone won the toss and elected to field
* East Zone advanced to the final

### Semifinal 2

* 1 December 2014 Scorecard
| South Zone 314/7 (50 overs) | v | West Zone 319/8 (47.1 overs) |
| Mayank Agarwal 86 (87) Dhawal Kulkarni 3/64 (10 overs) | | Suryakumar Yadav 80 (56) Stuart Binny 3/66 (8 overs) |
* West Zone won by 2 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
* West Zone won the toss and elected to field
* West Zone advanced to the final

### Final

* 3 December 2014 Scorecard
| East Zone 269/8 (50 overs) | v | West Zone 245 (47.2 overs) |
| Manoj Tiwary 75 (92) Dhawal Kulkarni 2/35 (9 overs) | | Kedar Jadhav 97 (91) Ashok Dinda 4/33 (9 overs) |
* East Zone won by 24 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Player of the match: Ashok Dinda (EZ)
* East Zone won the toss and elected to bat
* East Zone won the 2014–15 Deodhar Trophy