Sarfaraz Khan. (Source – Twitter/X)
Flamboyant batter Sarfaraz Khan will be playing in the second round of the Duleep Trophy despite getting included in the two-match Test series against Bangladesh, starting September 19. As per reports, the Indian players will join the national camp in Chennai on September 12 as Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Yash Dayal and others have been released from their respective squads but not Sarfaraz.
He would instead play the second round of the Duleep Trophy from September 12 and will join the Indian team soon after that. Meanwhile, Suyash Prabhudesai and Himanshu Mantri have been called up to the India B squad for the rest of the tournament. Star batter Rinku Singh too has joined the India B camp in Bengaluru.
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Multiple changes in India A squad
India A will miss the services of Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, Kuldeep Yadav, and Akash Deep in the remainder of the Duleep Trophy as they have been called up for the Bangladesh series. Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, Shaik Rasheed, Shams Mulani, and Pulkit Narang have been called up to replace them.
Meanwhile, as per ESPNcricinfo, India A’s pacer Vidhwath Kaverappa will leave the camp and join the D team for the second round of the tournament.
Changes in India D camp
India C isn’t affected by the India call-ups. Meanwhile, India D will miss the services of Axar Patel and Tushar Deshpande. Patel has been called up for the Test series while Deshpande is out injured. Kaverappa will replace him while Nishant Sindhu has also been called up.
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Likely squads for 2nd round of Duleep Trophy matches
India A: Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, Shaik Rasheed, Shams Mulani, Pulkit Narang
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Sarfaraz Khan, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (wk), Rinku Singh, Suyash Prabhudesai, Himanshu Mantri
India C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (wk), B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (wk), Sandeep Warrier
India D: Shreyas Iyer (c), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (wk), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (wk), Saurabh Kumar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Nishant Sindhu
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