Virat Kohli Rohit Sharma: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will not be seen playing in the first round of the domestic tournament Duleep Trophy to be held in September. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the squads of all four teams for the first round of Duleep Trophy. The names of Kohli and Rohit are not there in this. The Indian domestic season with the red ball is going to start with this competition, which will start from 5th September. Duleep Trophy matches will be played in Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh and Bengaluru in Karnataka.
Earlier reports were saying that Kohli and Rohit can play this tournament on the instructions of the new head coach of the Indian team, Gautam Gambhir. But his name is not in the squad. Apart from this, the names of fast bowling all-rounder Hardik Pandya and fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah are also not in the squad. Actually, Rohit, Bumrah and Kohli have got permission not to play in this tournament.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had made it clear to the Test specialists that they should be ready for domestic matches when they are not part of the national team. However, exceptions have been made to this rule for Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah. It will depend on their wish whether they want to play or not. The board wants Test players to play at least one Duleep Trophy match before the series against Bangladesh and New Zealand.
Ishan Kishan also got a chance to enter the team
Whereas wicketkeeper batsman Ishan Kishan has got another opportunity to enter the Indian team. Ishaan has been selected in Team-D for Duleep Trophy. The captaincy of this team is in the hands of Shreyas Iyer.
The captaincy of Team-A has been handed over to Shubhman Gill, the command of Team-B has been handed over to Abhimanyu Easwaran and the captaincy of Team-C has been handed over to Rituraj Gaikwad. Let us tell you that this Duleep Trophy tournament will be played from 5th September.
All four squads for Duleep Trophy first round
Team A: Shubman Gill (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Ryan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, KL Rahul, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khalil Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kawerappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shashwat Rawat. .
Team B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan. (wicket keeper).
Team C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar, Abhishek Porel (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Baba Inderjeet, Hrithik Shaukeen, Manav Suthar, Umran Malik, Vaishak Vijaykumar, Anshul Kamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper). , Sandeep Warrier.
Team D: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thackeray, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (wicketkeeper) , Saurabh Kumar.