After years of anticipation, the domestic cricket is on the front page as BCCI’s Men’s Selection Committee has unveiled star-studded squads for the upcoming Duleep Trophy 2024 season. While several international stars will don the Team A, B, C and D jersey’s three big names excluded are Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah.
While Bumrah is being kept safe, fans were expecting to see Rohit-Kohli back in domestic cricket after ages. Regardless, both veterans will enjoy a 40-odd days break and will directly compete in the home season starting with the two Tests against Bangladesh.
Gill, Gaikwad, Easwaran & Iyer to lead
The star-studded teams will be led by four talented skippers in Shubman Gill (Team A), Abhimanyu Easwaran (Team B), Ruturaj Gaikwad (Team C) and Shreyas Iyer (Team D). All four teams are packed with household names. KL Rahul, Shivam Dube, Kuldeep Yadav and Mayank Agarwal will play under Gill’s Team A. Meanwhile, Rishabh Pant, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Ravindra Jadeja will be part of Team B.
Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan, who both will play the Buchi Babu tournament as well, are also part of the squads. It is pertinent to note that these are squads for just one match only (per team), i.e., for the first round. The first round will be played from September 5 to September 8 in Anantapur.
Duleep Trophy Squads for Round 1
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.
