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| Venue | Modi Stadium, Kanpur on 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th January 2001 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | East Zone won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Central Zone 3; East Zone 5 |
| Umpires | N Muralidaran, KR Shankar |
| Referee | RJ Bhatt |
| Close of play day 1 | Central Zone (1) 231/3 (Kaif 12*, Khoda 2*; 53 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Central Zone (1) 417/8 (Parida 9*, Zaidi 3*; 116 overs) |
| Close of play day 3 | East Zone (1) 230/4 (Gavaskar 51*, Rajiv Kumar 20*; 65.3 overs) |
| Central Zone first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JP Yadav | b Javed Zaman | 95 | 160 | 214 | 10 | 3 | |
| AA Pagnis | c Haldipur b Diwakar | 7 | 12 | 37 | 1 | - | |
| *AR Khurasiya | c Parida b Javed Zaman | 110 | 108 | 163 | 15 | 4 | |
| M Kaif | c Dasgupta b Javed Zaman | 83 | 171 | 218 | 13 | - | |
| GK Khoda | lbw b Javed Zaman | 6 | 40 | 41 | - | - | |
| A Raja Ali | c and b Sukhvinder Singh | 16 | 38 | 61 | 2 | - | |
| +A Sharma | c Chatterjee b Sukhvinder Singh | 31 | 72 | 75 | 4 | - | |
| M Kartik | lbw b Sukhvinder Singh | 45 | 50 | 76 | 6 | - | |
| KS Parida | c Raul b Diwakar | 9 | 49 | 75 | 1 | - | |
| AW Zaidi | b Javed Zaman | 7 | 11 | 17 | - | - | |
| SJ Srivastava | not out | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | |
| Extras | (4 b, 7 lb, 1 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 118.2 overs) | 421 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-30 (Pagnis, 7.6 ov), 2-212 (Khurasiya, 45.4 ov), 3-221 (Yadav, 47.4 ov), 4-249 (Khoda, 59.4 ov), 5-280 (Raja Ali, 74.3 ov), 6-351 (Sharma, 97.1 ov), 7-375 (Kaif, 102.3 ov), 8-409 (Kartik, 113.3 ov), 9-421 (Zaidi, 117.6 ov), 10-421 (Parida, 118.2 ov) | |||||||
| East Zone bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Javed Zaman | 34 | 4 | 99 | 5 | - | - | |
| Diwakar | 25.2 | 7 | 95 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Chatterjee | 20 | 5 | 75 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sukhvinder Singh | 25 | 5 | 89 | 3 | - | - | |
| Raul | 14 | 0 | 52 | 0 | - | - | |
| East Zone first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *SS Das | lbw b Yadav | 40 | 51 | 63 | 8 | - | |
| NL Haldipur | c Sharma b Yadav | 34 | 57 | 94 | 4 | - | |
| RR Parida | lbw b Kartik | 53 | 110 | 128 | 6 | 1 | |
| SS Raul | b Parida | 11 | 19 | 29 | 2 | - | |
| RS Gavaskar | c sub (D Bundela) b Parida | 146 | 295 | 392 | 15 | 2 | |
| Rajiv Kumar | b Srivastava | 25 | 67 | 94 | 3 | - | |
| +DB Dasgupta | c Sharma b Kartik | 72 | 140 | 216 | 9 | - | |
| Sukhvinder Singh | c Srivastava b Parida | 29 | 66 | 60 | 4 | 1 | |
| US Chatterjee | c Yadav b Parida | 1 | 17 | 24 | - | - | |
| MS Diwakar | lbw b Srivastava | 16 | 44 | 61 | 2 | - | |
| Javed Zaman | not out | 5 | 15 | 27 | - | - | |
| Extras | (22 b, 17 lb, 13 nb) | 52 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 144.4 overs) | 484 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-68 (Das, 12.4 ov), 2-96 (Haldipur, 20.1 ov), 3-120 (Raul, 27.4 ov), 4-181 (Parida, 45.6 ov), 5-249 (Rajiv Kumar, 70.2 ov), 6-423 (Dasgupta, 118.6 ov), 7-433 (Gavaskar, 121.6 ov), 8-441 (Chatterjee, 129.3 ov), 9-472 (Sukhvinder Singh, 139.4 ov), 10-484 (Diwakar, 144.4 ov) | |||||||
| Central Zone bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Zaidi | 11 | 1 | 48 | 0 | - | - | |
| Srivastava | 22.4 | 5 | 61 | 2 | - | - | |
| Kartik | 41 | 4 | 129 | 2 | - | 7 | |
| Yadav | 26 | 4 | 81 | 2 | - | 6 | |
| Parida | 44 | 13 | 126 | 4 | - | - | |