2.40pm East Zone are vociferous in their celebrations despite the hot weather; sums up their tenacity in this contest, where their humungous first-innings total absolutely punctured the South Zone tires. For now, it's goodbye from me, Shashank Kishore, and Annayya Goudar here at Cricinfo!

2.30pm Time for the post-match presentation now.

South Zone captain, Tilak Varma, with the mic in hand now: "It is disappointing for us.The first day we were doing better, but when they scored 700, it was slightly tough chasing 700. Props to their batters. We didn't bowl that great honestly. Honestly, we were just thinking of batting on for three days, we have tried out best to score 700... Credit goes to East Zone, they have totally outplayed us."

Player of the Match is also the East Zone captain, Ishan Kishan.

Tilak Varma is the Player of the Series.

Now, we hear Ishan Kishan speak, after everyone has collected their winner's trophies. "To be honest, it's more about being one unit, we did that as a group, we won this title as a group, everyone was taking care of each other. [CV as a captain] I think I've been a godo leader, journey doesn't end here, when you lead a side there's always mistakes happening... I think it was more about reading the situation, you need to take care of each other, to get into the zone where I was. It's a good transformation for me: I've been more calm, I've had more hunger, you want to lead the team from the front."

And now he collects the winning trophy on East Zone's behalf. The team goes and poses in front of the "Champions" banner; they're a jolly lot!

2pm East have declared and the captains shake hands. The match is drawn. The contest is over. East Zone have won the Duleep Trophy after 13 years.