Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad to lead teams in Duleep Trophy

Duleep trophy will begin from September 5 with Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur and the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru as the host venues. Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, and Abhimanyu Easwaran have been picked as captains of the four teams by the Ajit Agarkar-led selection panel.

It was reported that Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will play in the domestic tournament but the veteran duo has not been picked. The likes of Prithvi Shaw, Rinku Singh have not been picked whereas Ravichandran Ashwin, and Jasprit Bumrah have been rested.

Meanwhile, Shubman Gill lead Team A and will have players like Riyan Parag, KL Rahul, Shivam Dube and Kuldeep Yadav.

Team B will be led by Abhimanyu Easwaran and players like Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Mohammed Siraj, and Ravindra Jadeja have been included.

Ruturaj Gaikwad will lead Team C and the side consists of players like Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Suryakumar Yadav and Umran Malik.

Shreyas Iyer will lead Team D and he will have the services of players like Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, and Tushar Deshpande.

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.