BCCI Announces Squads for Duleep Trophy 2024

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has officially announced the squads for the first round of the Duleep Trophy, scheduled to commence on September 5, 2024. 

The tournament will feature four teams—Team A, Team B, Team C, and Team D—led by players such as Shubman Gill, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Ruturaj Gaikwad, and Shreyas Iyer, respectively. 

The competition will follow a round-robin format, where each team will face the others once. The team topping the table after six games will be crowned the winner.

In a bid to ensure a highly competitive tournament, the BCCI has included several of India’s regular players across the four teams. Some big names like Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, and Mohammed Siraj will be seen in action. 

However, a few senior players, including Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, R Ashwin, and Jasprit Bumrah, have not been named in the squads for this edition of the tournament.

The matches are set to be held at two venues: Anantpur in Andhra Pradesh and M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Players involved in the first Test against Bangladesh, which will be held in Chennai, will be replaced by other players in the second and third round games. 

The BCCI has stated that the replacements will be announced in due course.

Squads for Duleep Trophy 2024:

• 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* (subject to fitness), 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 Iyer (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.

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