North Zone notched two points against East Zone by virtue of the first innings lead in the Group B Duleep Trophy league match which ended in a draw at the Nehru Stadium in Guwahati on Tuesday.

East Zone resumed their innings at the overnight score of 215 for 4, but lost skipper Sourav Ganguly early.

Ganguly, who scored a scintillating 118 on Monday, was caught behind off Joginder Sharma before adding to his total.

After their skipper's exit, East Zone's batsmen fell in quick succession and the team was all out for 295 runs.

Rohan Gavaskar (17) got off to a good start, hitting two fours and a six, but an ambitious shot off Rajesh Sharma saw the end of the Bengal player.

Deep Dasgupta (32) tried to stabilise the innings, but was caught by Mithun Manhas off Vishal Bhatia after adding 10 runs to his overnight score of 22.

For North Zone, Ashish Nehra and Sharma claimed three wickets each.

North Zone began their second innings on a promising note with openers Ravneet Ricky and Akash Chopra putting up 62 runs before the former was castled by Shivsagar Singh.

The match was called off at tea when bad light stopped play.

Scorecard

North Zone (1st Innings): 504 all out

East Zone (1st Innings):
Subhomoy Das c Gambhir b Gagandeep Singh 1
Shib Sundar Das b Ashish Nehra 4
Abhisekh Jhunjhunwala c Joginder b Nehra 32
Sourav Ganguly c Mahesh Rawat b Joginder Sharma 118
Laxmi Ratan Shukla st Rawat b Rajesh Sharma 15
Deep Dasgupta c Minhas b Vishal Bhatia 32
Rohan Gavaskar b Rajesh Sharma 17
Sourashish Lahiri c Rawat b Ashish Nehra 21
Shivsagar Singh c Rawat b Gagandeep Singh 11
Debashish Mohanty c Yashpal Singh b Rajesh Sharma 14
Ashok Dinda not out 1
Extras: (NB-26, B-1, LB-2) 29

Total: (all out in 111.3 over) 295

Fall of wickets: 1/3, 2/5, 3/107, 4/147, 5/220, 6/243, 7/249, 8/262, 9/292

Bowling: Ashish Nehra 32-7-80-3, Gagandeep Singh 17-6-50-2, Joginder Sharma 23-7-60-1, Rajesh Sharma 29.3-5-73-3, Vishal Bhatia 10-2-29-1.

North Zone (2nd innings):
Ravneet Rickey b Shivsagar Singh 36
Akash Chopra batting 23
Yashpal Singh batting 1
Extras (B-4, NB-1) 5

Total (for one wicket, in 27 overs) 65

Fall of wicket: 1/62

Bowling: Debashis Mohanty 7-3-8-0, Ashok Dinda 9-3-32-0, Shivsagar Singh 7-2-15-1, Rohan Gavaskar 4-2-6-0.