UP Squad Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024: The mega auction of IPL 2025 is coming closer, but before that the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024 is about to start. Uttar Pradesh has announced its team for this upcoming tournament, in which Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana and Yash Dayal have also been included. Last year, Karan Sharma was appointed the captain of UP, but this time Bhuvneshwar Kumar will be seen handling the responsibility of captaincy.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar will be captaining the team, but Dhruv Jurel will not be a part of the team this time, who has left for Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Talking about captain Bhuvneshwar Kumar, he was last seen playing in the UP T20 League, where he was able to take only 7 wickets in 11 matches. In the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023, Uttar Pradesh had reached the quarterfinals, where it had to face defeat by 5 wickets at the hands of Punjab in the first quarterfinal. If we assess the UP team, apart from Bhuvneshwar, four players have played international matches for India.
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— UPCA (@UPCACricket) November 18, 2024
11 year journey ends
Bhuvneshwar Kumar played for Sunrisers Hyderabad from 2014 to 2024, but SRH has released him before the IPL 2025 mega auction. He has taken 181 wickets in 176 IPL matches so far, so it is possible that many franchises would like to bid on him. SRH has spent a total of Rs 75 crore by retaining 5 players. The names of the retained players are Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Heinrich Klaasen.
UP squad for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Bhuvneshwar Kumar (captain), Madhav Kaushik (vice-captain), Karan Sharma, Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, Swastik Chikara, Priyam Garg, Aryan Juyal, Aditya Sharma, Piyush Chawla, Vipraj Nigam, Kartikeya Jaiswal, Shivam Sharma, Yash Dayal. , Mohsin Khan, Aaqib Khan, Shivam Mavi, Vineet Panwar.
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