Top Indian stars to feature in 2024 Duleep Trophy as squads announced

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has unveiled the squads for the 2024 Duleep Trophy, set to commence from September 5. A selection panel, headed by BCCI's chief selector Ajit Agarkar, has finalized the teams for the competition.

The tournament will feature four teams: India A, captained by Shubman Gill; India B, led by Abhimanyu Easwaran; India C, under Ruturaj Gaikwad; and India D, captained by Shreyas Iyer. These teams will compete across six matches, with the tournament concluding on September 19.

In addition to the four captains, several prominent Indian international players will participate, including KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mohammed Siraj, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, and Arshdeep Singh.

There were earlier speculations that Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma might participate in the tournament as preparation for the Bangladesh Test series beginning September 19. However, both players, along with Jasprit Bumrah and R. Ashwin, have been rested.

Duleep Trophy 2024 squads

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, Shashwat Rawat

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

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

Team 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