The Duleep Trophy squads for the second round were announced by the BCCI today. Here are the changes to the squads, the list of players drafted and the changes in the upcoming round.
The first round of the Duleep Trophy, which served as the curtain-raiser to India’s domestic season, saw four teams battle it out in the first round, from September 5.
Several India players participated, including Rishabh Pant, Shubham Gill, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer after the BCCI’s strict directive that international players must make themselves available for domestic red-ball cricket if there are no prior commitments.
Following a hiatus of nearly six weeks, the Indian team will be back in action with the Test series against Bangladesh, from September 19, the squad for which was announced on Sunday. According to reports, there will be a five-day camp in Chennai for the team before the first Test begins.
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The second round of the Duleep Trophy is set to begin on September 12, but without the players who have been picked for the Bangladesh series.
The selectors have replaced Shubman Gill, KL Rahul and Dhruv Jurel with Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar and Shaik Rasheed. Left-arm spinner Shams Mulani has come in place of Kuldeep Yadav, while Aqib Khan replaced Akash Deep.
India’s B Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant are in India’s Test series against Bangladesh, with Suyash Prabhudessai and Rinku Singh announced as replacements. Sarfaraz Khan, part of the upcoming series, will still feature in the second round. Himanshu Mantri has been added to the squad.
In Team D, Axar Patel will be replaced by Nishant Sandhu, while Tushar Deshpande, ruled out the second match due to a niggle will be replaced by India A's Vidwath Kaverappa.
Duleep Trophy, Round 2 squads: Ins, outs and updated squads
Team A:
Ins: Akshay Narang, Shaik Rasheed, Shams Mulani
Outs: Shubman Gill, Dhruv Jurel, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shashwat Rawat.
Updated squad: Mayank Agarwal (c), Riyan Parag, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Akshay Narang, SK Rasheed
*Mayank Agarwal has been named the captain in place of Shubman Gill
Team B:
Ins: Rinku Singh, Suyash Prabhudessai, Himanshu Mantri
Outs: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Yash Dayal, Mohit Awasthi
Updated squad: Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Rinku Singh, Suyash Prabhudesai, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, N Jagadeesan, Himanshu Mantri
Team C:
There have been no changes to Team C.
Updated squad: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Abishek Porel (wk), Aryan Juyal (wk), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Kamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Sandeep Warrier.
There is no update on Suryakumar Yadav’s fitness.
Team D:
Ins: Nishant Sindhu, Vidwath Kaverappa
Outs: Axar Patel, Tushar Deshpande
Updated squad: Shreyas Iyer (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), KS Bharat (wk), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Nishant Sindhu, Vidwath Kaverappa, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, Saurabh Kumar.
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