Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on August 27 announced a couple of replacements for the upcoming first round of the Duleep Trophy 2025. Navdeep Saini will replace an unwell Mohammed Siraj in the Team B squad. Umran Malik who was recovering from dengue is yet to regain full fitness has been replaced by Gaurav Yadav in the Team C squad. In addition, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has been released from Team B squad.
Saini's last appearance in Test cricket was in the Border-Gavaskar 2021-22 series. He was picked as a net bowler and got a chance to play as one of the replacements. He took four wickets from two Tests. Gaurav who plays for Puducherry has taken 141 wickets from 37 games at an average of 24.02 including seven five-wicket hauls. Meanwhile, Jadeja has been out of action since he retired from T20Is following India's T20 World Cup 2024 triumph. He was rested for the ODI series against Sri Lanka as well.
Meanwhile, M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru has been added to the list of venues for the tournament. The first round will begin on September 5, 2024. The other venue is Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh.
Updated Duleep Trophy 2024 squads:
India A: Shubman Gill (C), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (WK), KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK).
India C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (WK), Sandeep Warrier.
India D: Shreyas lyer (C), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (WK), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (WK), Saurabh Kumar.
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