Three Indian cricketers have been ruled out from the upcoming first round of the Duleep Trophy 2024 which includes Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj and Umran Malik. While no reason has been given behind Jadeja's release, the BCCI says both Siraj and Umran are ill and will not be able to recover in time to make it to the first round of the red-ball competition scheduled to begin in the first week of September.
“Both Siraj and Malik are ill and are not expected to be fit in time for the Duleep Trophy matches,” a statement issued by the BCCI said.
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Siraj was set to represent Team B under the captaincy of Abhimanyu Easwaran and will be replaced in the squad by India right-arm pacer Navdeep Saini.
Meanwhile, there were reports that Umran has recovered from dengue, but it seems he is still not fit enough to make a competitive comeback. He was scheduled to play for Team C led by Rituraj Gaikwad and will now be replaced by Madhya Pradesh pacer Gaurav Yadav.
No replacement has been announced for Jadeja. The tournament is scheduled to begin from September 5 in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh and M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.
Here are the latest teams
India A: Shubman Gill (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), KL Rahul, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khalil Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidawath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (wk), Mushir 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 (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar, Abhishek Porel (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajit, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vishak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper), Sandeep Warrier.
India D: Shreyas Lyer (captain), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thackeray, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Saurabh Kumar.
Comment: Nitish Kumar Reddy's participation in the Duleep Trophy depends on his fitness.