Duleep Trophy: Siraj, Umran Malik to miss first round of competition
NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Men’s Selection Committee named substitutes on Tuesday for pacers Mohammed Siraj and Umran Malik, who would be absent from the Duleep Trophy opening round owing to sickness.
Additionally, Team B has released great all-around player Ravindra Jadeja, as per ANI.
Top Indian players from the international circuit as well as up-and-coming talent will compete at the highest level in the Duleep Trophy, which launches red-ball cricket in the domestic season.September 5, 2024, is the scheduled start date of the event in M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru and Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh.
In the Team B and C teams, respectively, Navdeep Saini and Gaurav Yadav will take the place of the Pacers.
“The Men’s Selection Committee announced a couple of replacements in the squads for the first round of the 2024-25 Duleep Trophy. Pacer Navdeep Saini will replace Mohd. Siraj in the Team B squad while Gaurav Yadav will replace Umran Malik in the Team C squad. Both Siraj and Malik are suffering from an illness and are not expected to be fit in time for their Duleep Trophy fixtures,” said the statement from BCCI.
“All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has also been released from the Team B squad,” the statement added.
In the Duleep Trophy 2024-25 season, prominent Indian batters Rishabh Pant, Ishan Kishan, Shubman Gill, and numerous other players are expected to compete.
Revised squads:
India A: Shubman Gill (C), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (WK), KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK)
India C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (WK), Sandeep Warrier
India 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
Note: Nitish Kumar Reddy’s participation in the Duleep Trophy is subject to fitness.