The Duleep Trophy is ready to return to its conventional zonal from subsequent yr after the state items gave a thumbs right down to the four-team idea launched this season. The red-ball occasion featured 4 groups — India A, India B, India C, India D. India A beat India C to win the competitors earlier this month. Often, six groups from as many zones — central, east, west, north, south and north east — participate within the event, offering extra alternatives to the gamers from their respective zones. “The state items felt the format used this season didn’t give a good illustration to the gamers from their respective zones. The standard zonal format offers gamers extra alternatives zone clever and that’s what was conveyed within the AGM at this time,” a state unit official advised PTI after the BCCI AGM in Bengaluru.
The BCCI had rebranded the Duleep Trophy this season and the event attracted loads of eyeballs with some star India gamers being a part of the primary spherical.
Rishabh Pant marked his red-ball comeback on this event scoring a confidence-boosting half-century. Shubman Gill captained the India A aspect within the opening spherical earlier than handing over the management duties to Mayank Agarwal to affix the India Check squad for the continued collection in opposition to Mayank Agarwal.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Akash Deep, Kuldeep Yadav, Ok L Rahul and Dhruv Jurel had been the India gamers who had been a part of the event.
Akash’s splendid effort within the opening spherical helped him retain his place within the India squad whereas it additionally gave alternatives to the subsequent line of cricketers to make an affect forward of a busy Check season.
Left-arm pacer Yash Dayal too was picked for the Assessments after a powerful outing within the Duleep Trophy.
Shreyas Iyer, dropped for the Bangladesh collection, captained India D and Ruturaj Gaikwad, who’s but to play Check cricket, led India C.
Ishan Kishan, who like Iyer misplaced his central contract for not following BCCI’s directive to play home cricket, made a memorable comeback with a high quality hundred. The presence of India regulars and fringe gamers put contemporary life into the occasion.
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