Gill, Iyer, Gaikwad, Easwaran Named Captains for Duleep Trophy 2024 as BCCI Announces Star-Studded Squads

Easwaran to Lead Team B in Duleep Trophy 2024 / BCCI

 

The BCCI has announced the squads for the Duleep Trophy 2024, with Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, and Abhimanyu Easwaran named as captains of the four teams. 

Key players from India’s senior squads have been included, excluding Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, and Mohammed Shami.

Gill's Team A features KL Rahul, Shivam Dube, and Kuldeep Yadav. Easwaran's Team B includes Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ravindra Jadeja, and Rishabh Pant. Gaikwad's Team C boasts Suryakumar Yadav and Rajat Patidar, while Iyer's Team D has Ishan Kishan, Axar Patel, and Arshdeep Singh.

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.

The tournament begins on September 5 and will be hosted in Anantapur and Bengaluru, concluding on September 22.