The squads for the Duleep Trophy are out and most of the high-profile names from the Indian setup will be playing the tournament. One of the them is all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, who found a place in the Team B of the competition, under the leadership of Abhimanyu Easwaran. This will be the first time that Jadeja will be playing competitive cricket after India’s T20 World Cup triumph in June.
The Duleep Trophy that is scheduled to start from September 5, 2024 in Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh, and M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, will serve as a comeback of sorts for the veteran all-rounder. It is important to note that Jadeja was not part of the ODI squad in IND vs SL series.
Team B will also see Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, and Musheer Khan fight it out for the prestigious tournament. As far as the other teams are concerned, Shubman Gill will lead Team A, followed by Ruturaj Gaikwad for Team C, and Shreyas Iyer for Team D. Meanwhile, the players selected for the IND vs BAN series, will be duly replaced.
Duleep Trophy 2024-25 Full Squads
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.