Abhinav Mukund, Parthiv Patel and Suresh Raina to lead Duleep Trophy teams
The tournament, to be held from September 7 to 29, will be played with the pink ball like last year in Lucknow and Kanpur.
New Delhi: Abhinav Mukund, Parthiv Patel and Suresh Raina will lead the India Red, Green and Blue teams respectively in the upcoming Duleep Trophy, the Board of Control for Cricket in India ( BCCI) confirmed on Wednesday.
The tournament, to be held from September 7 to 29, will be played with the pink ball like last year in Lucknow and Kanpur.
The league stage will be played in a round-robin format with each game lasting four days while the final will be a five-day match starting from September 25.
The squads for the three teams are as follows:
India Red: Abhinav Mukund (Captain), Priyank Panchal, Sudip Chatterjee, Ishank Jaggi, Ambati Rayadu, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Baba Indrajith, K Gowtham, Karn Sharma, Basil Thampi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ashok Dinda, Rahul Singh and CV Milind.
India Green: Murali Vijay, R Samparth, P Chopra, Shreyas Iyar, Karun Nair, Ankit Bawne, Pathiv Patel (Captain), Shahbaz Nadeem, Parvez Rasool, Navdeep Saini, Mohammad Siraj, Sidharth Kaul, Mayank Dagar, Nitin Saini and Aniket Choudhary.
India Blue: Suresh Raina (Captain), Samil Gohel, KS Bharat, AR Easwaran, Manoj Tiwary, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Ishan Kishan, Jayant Yadav, Bhargav Bhatt, KM Gandhi, Ishant Sharma, Ankit Rajpoot, S Kamat and Jaydev Unadkat