In the Duleep Trophy 2025 semi-finals, North Zone's response to South Zone's 536 in the first innings is led by Shubham Khajuria 128* with support from Nishant Sindhu (82). They ended day three on 278-5. In the other match, Central Zone reached stumps at 556-8 against West Zone, with Shubham Sharma top-scoring (96), stretching the first-innings lead to 118.