BCCI announces changes in Duleep Trophy 2024 squads, THIS Sunrisers Hyderabad player to replace Shubman Gill as India A captain

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced major changes in the squads for the remaining rounds of the ongoing Duleep Trophy 2024 tournament, starting with the second round which gets underway at Anantapur from Thursday (September 12). With BCCI already announcing the squad for the first India vs Bangladesh 2024 Test last week, India ‘A’ Captain Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, Kuldeep Yadav and Akash Deep have been named in this squad.

As a result these players will not be featuring in the second round of the Duleep Trophy 2024 tournament. Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Karnataka batter Mayank Agarwal has been named as replacement skipper to lead the India ‘A’.

“The men’s Selection Committee have announced certain changes for the second round of the Duleep Trophy starting from 12th September in Anantapur. The selectors have named Pratham Singh (Railways) as a replacement for Gill, Akshay Wadkar (Vidarbha CA) as a replacement for KL Rahul and SK Rasheed (Andhra CA) as a replacement for Jurel. Left-arm spinner Shams Mulani will replace Kuldeep in the squad whereas Aaqib Khan (UPCA) will replace Akashdeep in the squad,” a BCCI statement read on Tuesday (September 10).

Agarwal scored 36 off 45 balls in the first innings of the India ‘A’ match against India ‘B’ in the first round of Duleep Trophy 2024. The SRH batter fell for 3 in the second innings as India ‘A’ lost by 76 runs with Yash Dayal claiming 3/50.

 

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In the India ‘B’ squad, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant have been named in Indian team for the 1st Test in Chennai and the selectors have named Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter Suyash Prabhudessai and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) batter Rinku Singh as replacements respectively.

“Fast bowler Yash Dayal has received his maiden national call-up while Sarfaraz Khan, who too has been named in India’s squad, will feature in the second-round game. Himanshu Mantri (Madhya Pradesh CA) has been added to the squad,” the BCCI statement added.

All-rounder Axar Patel will join Team India from India ‘D’ team and the Delhi Capitals player will be replaced by Nishant Sindhu (Haryana CA). Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai pacer Tushar Deshpande is ruled out of the second round owing to a niggle and he will be replaced by India A’s Vidwath Kaverappa.

India C squad remains unchanged for the second round. In the 2nd round matches from Thursday, India ‘A’ will take on Shreyas Iyer-led India ‘D’ team while India ‘B’ will face India ‘C’.

India A squad: Mayank Agarwal (C), Riyan Parag, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, SK Rasheed, Shams Mulani, Aaqib Khan

India B squad: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Sarfaraz Khan, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK), Suyash Prabhudessai, Rinku Singh, Himanshu Mantri (WK)

India D squad: Shreyas lyer (C), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (WK), Saurabh Kumar, Sanju Samson (WK), Nishant Sindhu, Vidwath Kaverappa