EZ vs SZ Highlights, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Tilak Varma fights a lone battle as he runs out of partners

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: So, that is the end of Day 3. Tilak Varma stays unbeaten on 56, while Chama Milind has joined him in the middle.

South Zone - 242/6

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Finally!!! East Zone get the wicket. Shreyas Gopal plays the ball back to Qureshi, who makes no mistake.

South Zone - 240/6

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: A great knock from the South Zone skipper under pressure. He has gone past his half-century and is still grinding it hard.

South Zone - 238/5

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: This time Ishan Kishan takes the ball and delivers.

South Zone - 228/5

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: After the fifth wicket, the East Zone bowlers have not found a way through. Ishan Kisnan and his men continue their grind as they look to secure the title.

South Zone - 227/5

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: This partnership is frustrating the East Zone. Tilak Varma looks resilient and fixated on staying there as long as possible.

South Zone - 220/5

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Ishan Kishan decides to roll his arm over. He is looking to break this partnership somehow. OH!! WAIT!!! He has called Sooravanshi and handed him the ball instead.

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Tilak Varma and Shreyas Gopal are showing great resistance here.

South Zone - 206/5

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Back of a length delivery at the off stump. Gopal pushes at it and the ball goes off the outside edge to Vaibhav Sooryavanshi at first slip. The young man fails to hold on. Mukesh Kumar does not look happy.

South Zone - 200/5

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Shreyas Gopal and Tilak Varma are looking to offer some resistance for South Zone and stick together a fighting partnership.

South Zone - 192/5

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Shami is bowling a probing line and length. He is continuing from where he left before the break.

South Zone - 178/5

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: The first over comes from Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. A decent over.

South Zone 178/5

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: So, we are back for the final session. The East Zone have really taken control of the match.

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: South Zone enter the tea interval with half the side back in the hut. The Tilak Varma-led side are staring down the barrel and the captain really needs to step up if the South Zone are to have any chance of surviving at Chepauk.

South Zone 176/5 in 56 overs.

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi introduces himself into the attack so that Mohammed Shami is able to bowl one more over from the other end before the tea interval.

South Zone 176/5.

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Mohammed Shami strikes, gets his second and Ravichandran Smaran walks back for 23. The pacer went past the outside edge and it prompted both Shami and Kumar Kushagra to launch a huge appeal. However, the umpire stood his ground. After a lot of deliberation, Sooryavanshi decided to go for the review and the replays showed a spike when the ball was next to the bat.

South Zone 174/5.

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Tilak Varma and Smaran have started to rotate the strike at will and the duo are forming a crucial fifth wicket stand for the South Zone. Tea is around the corner and safe to say, that the duo are playing for the break in play.

South Zone 174/4.

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Both Tilak Varma and Ravichandran Smaran are biding their time and runs are not flowing freely. Both batters are looking just to survive for now.

South Zone 159/4.

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: South Zone hopes now rely on skipper Tilak Varma, who is in the middle alongside Ravichandran Smaran! This is a crucial partnership for the South Zone.

SZ 145/4

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Oh god! Terrible shot from Padikkal off a nothing delivery. Mukesh Kumar drops it on the pads and the left-hander looks to go aerial and only finds the substitute fielder Denish Das in the deep. Padikkal throws his wicket away on 62. East Zone are now firmly on top.

South Zone 129/4.

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Mohammed Shami gets the breakthrough. Rasheed walks back for 27. The right-hander is wrapped on the pads and the on-field umpire doesn't think twice before raising his finger. The first wicket for Shami in the final.

South Zone 126/3.

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: Poor delivery from Quraishi. Rasheed just times the ball to backward square leg and is rewarded with a boundary. The right-hander moves on to 26.

South Zone 123/2.

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: The pitch is finally showing some signs of some wear and tear. The ball has started to keep low and this will bring the East Zone spinners into the mix.

South Zone: 119/2

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: We are back live. The players are out there in the middle for the second session. Padikkal and Rasheed would hope to continue from where they left off in the first session.

EZ vs SZ LIVE Score, Day 3, Duleep Trophy 2026 Final: The first session is done and dusted on the third day. Devdutt Padikkal and Shaik Rasheed are in the middle for the South Zone, unbeaten on 58 and 22, respectively.

South Zone 115/2.