BCCI announce squads for Duleep Trophy; five Royal Challengers to feature

India’s latest domestic cricket season is all set to roll as it is going to be the prestigious Duleep Trophy to raise the curtains. A welcome twist to the tournament will see some of the finest Indian international cricketers coming down to rub shoulders with promising young talent of the country.

The tournament will be starting from September 5th in Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh and M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru which will see four teams fighting it out for glory. Indian vice-captain, Shubman Gill will be captaining Team A while seasoned domestic stalwart, Abhimanyu Easwaran, will be spearheading Team B.

Team C and Team D will witness Ruturaj Gaikwad and Shreyas Iyer take over the reins respectively while the teams will be featuring star-studded sides to provide a major facelift to what has already been a historic tournament.

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

Team B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd Siraj, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK).

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

Team 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.