The captain of the Indian T20I side Surya Kumar Yadav will not feature in the first round of the 2024-25 Duleep Trophy because of a hand injury. Surya got injured during a pre-season fixture for Mumbai in the Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament. At present, Surya is at the NCA (National Cricket Academy) in Bengaluru for recovery.
After hurting his hand while fielding on the third day of the match against TNCA XI last week, Suryakumar did not bat in the second inning. The Mumbai team administration at the time stated that the action was taken as a precaution considering his importance in the 2024-25 Duleep Trophy campaign.
Surya Kumar Yadav was named in the India C squad, whose skipper is Ruturaj Gaikwad. India C has to start its Duleep Trophy campaign against India D, which is led by Shreyas Iyer. Surya is not the only renowned player to be ruled out of the upcoming Duleep Trophy.
Recently, fast bowlers Mohammed Siraj and Umran Malik were also ruled out of the Duleep Trophy’s opening round due to illness. Ravindra Jadeja was ruled out too, though the BCCI did not give a reason for his withdrawal. For the India B and C teams, respectively, Navdeep Saini and Gaurav Yadav will take the places of Siraj and Malik.
Nitish Kumar Reddy, meantime, has been cleared by the NCA. After being ruled out of India’s T20I squad for Zimbabwe in July due to a groin injury, his inclusion was contingent on his level of fitness.
Revised squads for Duleep Trophy 2024-25 first round
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), B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (wk), Sandeep Warrier
India D: Shreyas Iyer (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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