How much prize money did Rajat Patidar's team get for winning Duleep Trophy 2025? The amount will blow your mind

Duleep Trophy 2025 Prize Money: The final of Duleep Trophy was played between Central Zone and South Zone. In this match, Rajat Patidar's team Central Zone won and he got lakhs of rupees in prize money.

Duleep Trophy 2025 Winner Central Zone: The final match of Duleep Trophy 2025 ended today on Monday, 15 September. This final was played between South Zone and Central Zone. Rajat Patidar's team Central Zone won this final match by 6 wickets and also won the Duleep Trophy. Rajat Patidar has earlier won the first title for RCB while captaining Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2025. Central Zone has received prize money of Rs 1 crore for winning the Duleep Trophy.

Duleep Trophy 2025 Prize Money?

Since the year 2023, both the prize money and the salary of the players have increased a lot in domestic cricket. Earlier, the winning team used to get only Rs 40 lakh for winning the Duleep Trophy, while this time in 2025, the Central Zone team has been given a prize money of Rs 1 crore for winning this title. This time the runner-up team has received a sum of Rs 50 lakh. Earlier, the runner-up used to get Rs 20 lakh.

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— Rajat Patidar (@rrjjt_01) September 15, 2025

How did Central Zone become champion for the seventh time?

In the match played between Central Zone and South Zone, Rajat Patidar's team won the match in the first session of the last day of the match. In this match, Central Zone captain Rajat Patidar won the toss and decided to bowl first and invited South Zone captained by Mohammad Azharuddin to bat.

The South Zone team was all out for 149 runs in the first innings. Central Zone scored 511 runs in the first innings and gained a lead of 362 runs. From here, Central Zone's victory seemed close, but South Zone also batted fiercely in the second innings and scored 426 runs and took a lead of 64 runs. Central Zone achieved this target of 65 runs by losing 4 wickets and captured the Duleep Trophy for the seventh time.

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