No Kohli and Rohit in Duleep Trophy; Gill, Jadeja & others picked

The Board of Control for Cricket India (BCCI) announced four different squads for the Duleep Trophy 2024 on August 14 (Wednesday). Star batter Virat Kohli, India skipper Rohit Sharma, veteran Ravichandran Ashwin and speedster Jasprit Bumrah are the four big names missing from the tournament. 

Duleep Trophy 2024 marks the beginning of red-ball cricket in the domestic season in India and it will see all the other big names featuring, with Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Abhimanyu Easwaran and Ruturaj Gaikwad leading the four sides.

Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj and Suryakumar Yadav all feature, as will Ishan Kishan, who currently does not hold a central contract.

Mohammed Shami, who is still recovering from an ankle injury, has not been picked. 

Curiously, despite four different teams featuring, there is no place for both Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane. Umesh Yadav, Wriddhiman Saha and Ishant Sharma are the other veterans who have not been picked in either squad.

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The tournament is set to begin from September 5, 2024, in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh and part of it will be played at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru.

Nitish Kumar Reddy, who has been selected in Team B in the Duleep Trophy, will be available only if he passes the fitness test. 

Once the squad for the Bangladesh Tests, beginning September 19 is selected, the players selected to represent India will be replaced in the Duleep Trophy squad, the BCCI confirmed in the press release. 

The four squads of the Duleep Trophy are as follows

Team A: Shubman Gill (C), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.

Team B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd Siraj, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK).

Team C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Umran Malik, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (WK), Sandeep Warrier.

Team 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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