Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, and Abhimanyu Easwaran have been selected skipper of the four Duleep Trophy sides. The opening round of the competition will feature the majority of the players from India’s senior squads, except Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, and Hardik Pandya. The selectors have not chosen R Ashwin in addition to these four players, while Mohammed Shami is still undergoing recovery.
Team A, which includes the likes of Riyan Parag, KL Rahul, Shivam Dube, and Kuldeep Yadav, will be led by Gill. Washington Sundar, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, and Yashasvi Jaiswal, are a part of Easwaran-led Team B. Nitish Reddy, the Andhra all-rounder, is also a part of the team, however, his participation is contingent on his level of fitness.
Rajat Patidar, Sai Sudharsan, and Suryakumar Yadav are among the players who are a part of Gaikwad’s Team C bolstering the batting order. Ishan Kishan makes his anticipated comeback and is selected for Team D, which is captained by Iyer. Arshdeep Singh, Axar Patel, and Devdutt Padikkal are some of the other key members of the team.
The players chosen to represent India in the home Test series against Bangladesh would be replaced in the Duleep Trophy squads, the BCCI has officially confirmed. The tournament is scheduled to begin on September 5 at Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, with the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru selected as the host venue. On September 22, the first-class tournament will come to an end.
Team A: Shubman Gill (C), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.
Team B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd Siraj, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK).
Team C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Umran Malik, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (WK), Sandeep Warrier.
Team D: Shreyas lyer (C), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (WK), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (WK), Saurabh Kumar.
