Ahead of the much-awaited Duleep Trophy 2024 start, Indian pacers Mohammed Siraj and Umran Malik have been ruled out of the first round of the tournament owing to illness.
BCCI released an official statement regarding their unavailability after it was confirmed that the duo aren’t expected to be fit in time for the start of the competition
Along with the pacers, Indian senior allrounder Ravindra Jadeja has also been released from the Team B squad, the reason for his unavailability wasn’t revealed by the BCCI.
Team B has included Navdeep Saini as the replacement player for Mohammed Siraj while Gaurav Yadav has been included in Team C as the replacement for Umran Malik.
The participation of Nitish Reddy in the Duleep Trophy 2024 is subject to fitness. Nitish who was initially named in the India squad for the Zimbabwe series 2024 was replaced by Shivam Dube after he was ruled out of the series owing to a sports hernia.
As per the Duleep Trophy 2024 schedule, the first match of the tournament will be played between India A and India B in M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru while India C will face India D at the Rural Development Trust Stadium in Anantapur on the same day.
Updated squad for Duleep Trophy 2024
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.
