Mumbai, Feb 13 (CRICKETNMORE) West Zone defeated North Zone by eight wickets in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Inter-Zonal Twenty20 cricket tournament at Wankhede Stadium here on Monday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
For the West Zone, Shreyas Iyer (30) and skiper Parthiv Patel (56) were the top scorers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
For the North Zone, Mohit Sharma and Parveez Rasool chipped in with one wicket each.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Chasing 108, Iyer and Patel built a match winning 80-run first wicket partnership before Iyer was adjudged leg before wicket in the ninth over. He was taken by spinner Rasool with 80 runs on the board.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
After two overs, Patel was also sent packing by pacer Sharma with just 16 runs needed to win. His 35-ball knock was laced with nine boundaries.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
New batsmen Aditya Tare (14 not out) and Ankit Bawne (4) then completed the formalities to hand a comfortable victory with 66 balls remaining.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Earlier, put in to bat, North Zone scored 107\/8 in their allotted 20 overs with veteran batsman Gautam Gambhir scoring 60 runs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
For the West Zone, Irfan Pathan scalped three wickets while Shardul Thakur, Ishwar Chaudhary and Abhishek Nayar chipped in with one wicket each.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Brief scores:
\r\nNorth Zone (Gautam Gambhir 60; Irfan Pathan 3-10) against West Zone (Shreyas Iyer 30 and skiper Parthiv Patel 56; Parveez Rasool 1-7)<\/p>\r\n",
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