Ruturaj Gaikwad scored a century in the semi-final of Duleep Trophy 2025

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Ruturaj Gaikwad scored a century in 131 balls in the semi-final of Duleep Trophy 2025: One after the other players are proving their performance in the Duleep Trophy. In this sequence, now Ruturaj Gaikwad, playing from West Zone, has scored a century while batting brilliantly. Gaikwad may be constantly ignored by the Indian selectors, but he keeps knocking on the door of Team India by performing whenever he gets a chance.

Ruturaj Gaikwad scored a century in the semi-finals

Chennai Super Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad has completed his century by batting brilliantly while playing for West Zone in the Duleep Trophy. Gaikwad came to bat at number-4 and started scoring runs. First he scored his half-century and then scored a century in 131 balls.

On the first day of this semi-final match, no batsman of the West Zone team is able to reach even 40 runs, there Ruturaj has proved his ability by scoring a century. (At the time of writing the news) he is batting on a score of 120*. Let us tell you, before this Gaikwad had also scored a century in the Buchi Babu tournament.

131 BALL HUNDRED BY RUTURAJ GAIKWAD IN THE DULEEP TROPHY. ? pic.twitter.com/9Beygm9PiU

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India's 2025-26 domestic season has begun with the Duleep Trophy. This is Gaikwad's first professional match after the Indian Premier League. Chennai Super Kings captain Gaikwad suffered an elbow injury during the IPL and was ruled out of the tournament after playing just five matches.

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Yashasvi and Iyer flopped

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In the semi-final match, Yashasvi Jaiswal came to open for West Zone. Where, he got out after scoring 4 runs after playing just 3 balls. At the same time, Shreyas Iyer also could not do anything special and became the victim of Khalil Ahmed after scoring 25 runs off 28 balls. West Zone's score has become 200 plus and Ruturaj is still scoring runs for his team. Now Gaikwad will be eyeing to convert the century into a double century.

West Zone Playing 11: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Harvik Desai (wicketkeeper), Arya Desai, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur (captain), Shreyas Iyer, Tanush Kotian, Shams Mulani, Dharmendra Singh Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Arjan Nagwaswala.

Central Zone Playing 11: Rajat Patidar (captain), Yash Rathood Rathore, Danish Malewar, Ayush Pandey, Shubham Sharma, Upendra Yadav (wicketkeeper), Saransh Jain, Harsh Dubey, Deepak Chahar, Khalil Ahmed, Yash Thakur.

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