Star Indian wicket-keeper batter Ishan Kishan who was ruled out of the first round of Duleep Trophy 2024 due to an injury, made a shocking return in round 2 by becoming part of India C's playing XI. This was a surprising appearance as when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) recently announced the updated squads for the Duleep Trophy, Ishan was not named in any of the squads. During the round 1, he was named in Team D before being ruled out due to an injury and being replaced by Sanju Samson.
According to media reports, Ishan was out of the first match due to injury. Additionally, there were also talks around him being out of the tournament as well. When BCCI announced the updated squad for the second round of the Duleep Trophy two days ago, Ishan Kishan's name was not in it too, but just before the second round started on Thursday, Ishan was included in the India C team led by Rituraj Gaikwad. He replaced Aryan Juyal for the match against India B.
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BCCI had made it clear that Ishan Kishan was out of the first round match due to injury. Ishan was reportedly injured while playing in the Buchi Babu tournament. Ishan Kishan played two matches in Buchi Babu. In the first match against Madhya Pradesh, he scored a century (114) and remained unbeaten after scoring 41 runs. At the same time, he flopped in the two innings of the second match against Hyderabad. In the second match, he scored only 1 and 5 runs. Ishan is now completely focused on red ball cricket.
India B vs India C Playing XIs
India C: Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Ishan Kishan, Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Baba Indrajith, Abishek Porel(w), Manav Suthar, Anshul Kamboj, Mayank Markande, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Sandeep Warrier
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran(c), N Jagadeesan(w), Musheer Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Rinku Singh, Nitish Reddy, Washington Sundar, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar
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