1980–81 Duleep Trophy

The 1980–81 Duleep Trophy was the 20th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament contested by five zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone.

1980–81 Duleep Trophy

Dates	7 December 1980 – 23 February 1981
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	West Zone (10th title)
Participants	5
Matches	4
Most runs	Anshuman Gaekwad (WZ) (309)[1]
Most wickets	Barun Burman (EZ) (11)[2]
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West Zone won the final against East Zone on first innings lead.

Results

Quarterfinal

Semifinals

Final

West Zone

FIL

Central Zone

Central Zone

FIL

South Zone

West Zone

FIL

East Zone

North Zone

East Zone

FIL

Final

20–23 February 1981 Scorecard

West Zone	v	East Zone
315 (67.3 overs) Rajendra Bhalekar 99 Barun Burman 6/88		214 (131.3 overs) Karun Dubey 88 Narayan Satham 5/52
348/4 dec (105.2 overs) Anshuman Gaekwad 147 Randhir Singh 2/87		186/6 (86 overs) Pranab Roy 36 Ghulam Parkar 1/10

Match drawn; West Zone won on first innings lead Eden Gardens, Calcutta

• West Zone won the toss and elected to bat.