Team India’s star batsman Sarfaraz Khan will play in the second round of the Duleep Trophy despite being included in the two-match Test series against Bangladesh starting on September 19. According to reports, the Indian players will join the national camp in Chennai on September 12. Let us tell you that before the series, Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Yash Dayal and other players have been released from their team but Sarfaraz has not been released.
Sarfaraz will now play the second round of the Duleep Trophy from September 12 and will join the Indian team immediately after that. Meanwhile, Suyash Prabhudesai and Himanshu Mantri have been included in the India B team for the rest of the tournament. Star batsman Rinku Singh has also joined the India B camp in Bengaluru.
India A will miss Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, Kuldeep Yadav and Akash Deep in the remaining matches of the Duleep Trophy as all these players are part of Team India for the Bangladesh series. In their place, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, Sheikh Rashid, Shams Mulani and Pulkit Narang have been called in the team. Meanwhile, according to ESPNcricinfo, India A pacer Vidhavatt Kaverappa will leave the camp and join the D squad for the second round of the tournament.
The India C team is not much affected by the Bangladesh series selections. Meanwhile, Axar Patel and Tushar Deshpande will not be able to play for India D. Patel has been included in the squad for the Test series while Deshpande is injured. Kaverappa will replace him while Nishant Sindhu has also been called up.
Probable teams for the second round of Duleep Trophy
India A: Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Tanush Kotian, Khalil Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, Sheikh Rashid, Shams Mulani, Pulkit Narang
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Sarfaraz Khan, Mushir Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Suyash Prabhudesai, Himanshu Mantri
India C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar, Abhishek Porel (wicketkeeper), B Indrajit, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vishal Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper), Sandeep Warrier
India D: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thackeray, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Saurabh Kumar, Vidhath Kaverappa, Nishant Sindhu