Jadeja, Siraj, Umran Malik to miss Duleep Trophy: BCCI announces updated squad, Navdeep Saini and Gaurav Yadav get chance

Indian all-rounders Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Siraj and Umran Malik will not feature in the current season of the Duleep Trophy. The Indian team's selection committee has dropped Jadeja from Team B, while Siraj and Malik are ill. The committee has included Navdeep Saini in Team B in place of Siraj and Gaurav Yadav in Team C in place of Umran Malik. The tournament is starting from September 5. This time the match is to be played in Anantapur and Bengaluru. Nitish Kumar Reddy's playing will depend on his fitness. 4 squad announced on 14th August The BCCI selection committee announced the squad for this tournament 13 days ago on 14th August. The selectors left it to Indian captains Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to decide whether they would play or not. Bumrah was rested. Last year, Shreyas Iyer, who did not play Ranji despite the request of the selectors, was chosen as the captain of Team D. Ishan Kishan was also given a place. Apart from Iyer, opener Shubman Gillan has made team A, Abhimanyu Iswaran and team C Rituraj Gaikwad captain. Rishabh Pant, who returned from a car accident, was selected in Team B. Duleep Trophy to be played in a new format Duleep Trophy will be played in a new format this season. It will not be organized in zonal format as before. A selection panel headed by Ajit Agarkar will select 4 teams India A, India B, India C and India D, which will participate in the tournament. New Team Selection for Duleep Trophy… Team A: Shubman Gill (captain), Mayank Aggarwal, Ryan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, KL Rahul, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akashdeep, Ishtan Krishna, Khalil Ahmed, Awesh Khan, Vidwat Kawerappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shashwat Rawat. Team B: Abhimanyu Iswaran (captain), Yashshwi Jaiswal, Sarfraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Mushir Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagdeesan . Team C: Rituraj Gaekwad (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar, Abhishek Porel, Suryakumar Yadav, Baba Indrajit, Hrithik Shokin, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vijaykumar Vaishak, Anshul Kamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal and Sandeep Warrier. . Team D: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikal, Ishan Kishan, Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Akshar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thackeray, Harshit Rana, Tusshar Deshpande, Akash Sen Gupta, KS Bharat, Sourav Kumar.

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