Big Names Return except Virat Kohli or Rohit Sharma as BCCI announces squads for Duleep Trophy 2024-25

Duleep Trophy 2024-25: The last few days saw a lot of talks happening regarding the upcoming Duleep Trophy 2024-25. It is because the senior men's team are on a break of 42 days, and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has asked some of the senior players to feature in the coming tournament.

On Wednesday (August 14), the Indian selection committee led by Ajit Agarkar announced the squads for all four participating teams in the tournament. Duleep Trophy is played in Zonal format, but the BCCI has made it a four-team competition for this season. India A, B, C, and D will be participating in the coming tournament, which will take place between September 5 and 22.

This tournament will help the Indian stars who are part of the Test team to have some game time under their belts before a long test season comes up. India are set to play Test series against Bangladesh, New Zealand, and Australia. Hence, this tournament marks an important value for the Indian team.

Duleep Trophy 2024-25: Format and Details

South Zone under Hanuma Vihari won the last edition, beating West Zone in the final. The coming season will have a total of six matches, and the team that finishes at the top of the competition will be crowned champions. These six games will take place in Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh, while one of the games in the first round will take place at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengalurur.

There were rumours that big names like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will be playing in this tournament. But fans are unfortunate to see them missing out on the squads. But we might see other stars like Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ishan Kishan, and others in the tournament. Here are the four squads for the Duleep Trophy 2024-25.

Duleep Trophy 2024-25: Squads for all four teams

Team A: Shubman Gill (C), KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Akash Deep, Khaleel Ahmed, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Vidwath Kaverappa, and Shaswat Rawat.

Team B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Rishabh Pant (wk), Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Sarfaraz Khan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy (subject to fitness), Mohammed Siraj, N Jagadeesan (wk), Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Sai Kishore, Rahul Chahar,  Mohit Awasthi

Team C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Suryakumar Yadav, Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (WK), B Indrajith,  Aryan Juyal (wk), Umran Malik, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Anshul Khamboj, Sandeep Warrier.

Team D: Shreyas lyer (C), Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (WK), Axar Patel, Saransh Jain, Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Ricky Bhui, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (WK), Saurabh Kumar, Tushar Deshpande

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