Duleep Trophy Second Round: The second round of the Duleep Trophy 2024 season is starting on Thursday (September 12). In this round, all those cricketers including Rinku Singh and Shreyas Iyer, who have been ignored by the selectors for the Bangladesh Test, have a chance to perform well. The Duleep Trophy matches will start at 9.30 am.
With Shubman Gill joining the Indian team, Mayank Agarwal will be the captain of the India A team. Mayank, who played his last Test in March 2022, will have to perform well to raise his claim for selection in the national team again.
All eyes will be on Rinku Singh
In the India B team, captain Abhimanyu Easwaran will have to lead from the front, who flopped in the first round in Bengaluru last week. Apart from him, all eyes will be on Rinku Singh, who was not selected in the first round despite a brilliant first class record, and who has been performing well in T20 cricket for India.
The Indian team players have been given rest before the first Test against Bangladesh starting on 19 September in Chennai, due to which many stars will not be able to play in the second round. Sarfaraz Khan is the only member of the Indian team who will be seen in the second round of this domestic tournament.
Fast bowler Prasidh Krishna could not play in the first round due to injury. He has been included in the India A team. Sarfaraz’s younger brother Mushir Khan had helped India B win over India A by scoring 181 runs in the first round. Now the elder brother will also be eyeing to play a big innings.
Mukesh also has to prove himself
Washington Sundar is also in the India B team. At the same time, Akash Deep was given preference over fast bowler Mukesh Kumar in the first Test, after which Mukesh would also like to prove his usefulness. India C openers Sai Sudarshan and Rituraj Gaikwad would also like to attract the attention of the national selectors by scoring runs.
India D captain Shreyas Iyer will try to prove his usefulness by scoring runs after being dropped from the Test team. Similarly, Devdutt Padikkal and Sanju Samson will also be looking to impress with their performance.
The teams are as follows-
India A: Mayank Agarwal (captain), Riyan Parag, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, Khalil Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Shashwat Rawat, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, SK Rashid, Shams Mulani, Aaqib Khan.
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Sarfaraz Khan, Mushir Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan, Suyash Prabhudesai, Rinku Singh, Himanshu Mantri.
India C: Rituraj Gaikwad (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar, Abhishek Porel (wicketkeeper), B Indrajit, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Sutar, Gaurav Yadav, Vishak Vijay Kumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal, Sandeep Warrior.
India D: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thackeray, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat, Saurabh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Nishant Sindhu, Vidvat Kaverappa.
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