Duleep Trophy 2024 Squad For Second Round: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced all the teams for the second round of Duleep Trophy 2024. The second round will start from October 12 in Anantapur. One match of the first round of the trophy was played in Bengaluru and the other in Anantapur. There have been major changes in India A, India B and India D for the second round, while no change has been made in India C. Due to the change, Rinku Singh has been included in India B.
What changes happened in which team?
India A’s changes
India saw changes in the form of captain Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, Kuldeep Yadav and Akash Deep. All these players have been included in Team India for the first Test against Bangladesh.
The selectors have included Pratham Singh (Railways) in place of Gill, Akshay Wadkar (Vidarbha CA) in place of KL Rahul and SK Rashid (Andhra CA) in place of Dhruv Jurel. Apart from this, spinner Shams Mulani will replace Kuldeep Yadav in the team, while Aaqib Khan (UPCA) will be part of the team in place of Akashdeep. Mayank Agarwal has been made the captain of the team.
India A’s updated squad
Mayank Agarwal (captain), Riyan Parag, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, Khalil Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, SK Rashid, Shams Mulani, Aqib Khan.
India B’s changes
From India B, Rishabh Pant, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan and Yash Dayal have been included in Team India for the first Test against Bangladesh. Suyash Prabhudesai and Rinku Singh have been brought in the team in place of Pant and Jaiswal. Sarfaraz Khan will also be available for the second round. Rest Himanshu Mantri has been included in the team.
India B updated squad
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), Suyash Prabhudesai, Rinku Singh, Himanshu Mantri (wicketkeeper).
India D’s changes
Akshar Patel has been selected in Team India from India D. Apart from this, fast bowler Tushar Deshpande has been ruled out due to a minor injury. Akshar has been replaced by Nishant Sindhu and Tushar has been replaced by Vidvat Kaveerapp from India A.
India D updated squad
Shreyas Iyer (captain), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thackeray, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Saurabh Kumar, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Nishant Sindhu, Vidawath Kaverappa.
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