1978–79 Duleep Trophy

1978–79 Duleep Trophy

Dates	20 October 1978 – 18 March 1979
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	North Zone (2nd title)
Participants	5
Matches	4
Most runs	Surinder Khanna (NZ) (244)
Most wickets	Dhiraj Parsana (WZ) (17)

The 1978–79 Duleep Trophy was the 18th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament contested by five zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone.

North Zone won the final against West Zone on first innings lead.

Results

Quarterfinal

Semifinals

Final

West Zone

W

Central Zone

Central Zone

W

South Zone

West Zone

North Zone

FIL

East Zone

North Zone

W

Final

15–18 March 1979 Scorecard

North Zone	v	West Zone
417 (157.2 overs) Yashpal Sharma 89 Rajendra Jadeja 3/72		277 (86.1 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 130* Kapil Dev 7/65
263/8 dec (123 overs) Mohinder Amarnath 65* Dhiraj Parsana 5/65		102/2 (36 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 56* Yashpal Sharma 1/28

Match drawn; North Zone won on first innings lead Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi

• West Zone won the toss and elected to field.

External links

• Series home at CricketArchive