The Indian domestic season is set to start completely to start with the Dileep Trophy in Bengaluru from 28 August. The tournament will return to the zonal format this time. Last year, there were four teams in the form of India A, B, C and D. This time the mixture will have six teams with some big names.
With more emphasis on domestic cricket with BCCI and Indian team management, players will aim to impress the selectors and make their way into the mixture for India’s home season. The biggest name in the mixture is India Test Captain Shubman Gill, who will lead the north region. However, Health issues can limit their participation in tournamentEspecially with the Asia Cup on the horizon. Apart from Gill, the choice of Mohammed Shami, Yashvi Jaiswal, Harshit Rana and others would also like to affect.
The tournament will be played in the knockout format this time, with the finals starting on 11 September. West Zone and South Zone have already made it in the semi -finals, which means that the rest of the parties will fight it to enter the final four.
The first quarter -final will be played at the BCCI Center of Excellence at Bangalore.
Duleep Trophy: Key Points
- Shardul Thakur to lead a strong west region
- Sarfaraz Khan Buchi will see to pursue his case after Babu heroes
- Shreyas Iyer, Abhimanyu Ishvaran and Ruturaj Gikwad will see to draw attention to the selectors
- Everyone will be eyeing Mohammed Shami as he returns to domestic cricket
- Young pacers like Harshit Rana and Arshdeep Singh will see to make their case
Duleep Trophy: Full knock
North area, Standbai: Shubam Arora (WK), Jasksanveer Singh Paul, Ravi Chauhan, Abid Mushtaq, Nishank Birla, Omar Nazir, Divesh Sharma
South region: Tilak Verma (C), Mohammad Azharuddin (VC), Tanmay Aggarwal, Devdutt Padikkal, Mohit Kale, Salman Nizar, Narayan Jagadesan, Tripurana Vijay, R Sai Kishore, Tanya Thyagarajan, Vijkumar Vishnak, Shahees, Shiskumar Dynasty Gurjapneet Singh, Snehal Kuthankar. Standbai: Mohit Redkar, R Souran, Ankit Sharma, Edhane Apple Tom, Andre Siddartha, Sheikh Rashid
Western regionJadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Arjan Nagwaswala. Standbai: Mahesh Pithia, Shivlik Shama, Mukesh Chaudhary, Siddharat Desai, Chintan Gaja, Urvil Patel, Mushir Khan
Pre -region: Abhimanyu Ishwaran (C), Ryan Parag (VC), Sandeep Patnaik, Virat Singh, Danish Das, Sridam Paul, Sharadeep Singh, Kumar Kushagra (WK), Ashirwad Swain (WK), Utkrash Singh, Manishu Jaushun, Surraj Sindhu Jaushun, Surraj Sindhu Jaushun Mis.
North east zoneLambam Ajay Singh. Standbai: Cama Yangfo, Rajkumar Rex Singh, Bobby Jothananan, Dipu Sangma, Pukhumbam Prafullaomani Singh, Lee Yong Lepcha, Imlivati Lamtur.
Central area: Dhruv Jurael (C/WK), Rajat Patidar, Aryan Juyal, Danish Malwar, Sanjeet Desai, Kuldeep Yadav, Aditya Thakre, Deepak Chahar, Summary Jain, Ayush Pandey, Shubam Sharma, Yash Rothod, Harsh Dubey, Khalelele. Standbai: Madhav Kaushik, Yash Thakur, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mahipal Lomorore, Kuldeep Sen, Upendra Yadav.
Duleep Trophy: Full Schedule
Quarter Finals (NZ vs EZ and CZ vs NEZ) -28-31 August
Semifinals (SZ vs TBA and WZ VS TBA) -4-7 September
Last (TBA vs TBA) -11-15 September
Duleep Trophy: Where to see?
The Dalip Trophy will be live telecast on Star Sports Network. Live streaming for the tournament will be available on Jiohotstar.
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