Jadeja, Siraj, and Malik to miss Duleep Trophy first round

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the revised squads for the Duleep Trophy 2024/25 after releasing Mohammed Siraj, Umran Malik, and Ravindra Jadeja. 

Both the Indian pacers Mohammed Siraj and Umran Malik will miss the first round of the upcoming Duleep Trophy due to illness. Meanwhile, the star Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has been released from the Team B squad. However, the BCCI hasn’t revealed any reason for Jadeja’s exclusion.  

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Navdeep Saini and Gaurav Yadav are the replacements for Siraj and Malik

Navdeep Saini has replaced Mohammed Siraj in the Team B squad. In the meantime, Gaurav Yadav has been included in Team C as the replacement for Umran Malik. 

On the other hand, Team B’s Nitish Kumar Reddy’s participation is still subject to fitness. He recently earned the national team call-up during India's tour of Zimbabwe for the five-match T20I series. However, he was replaced due to suffering from a sports hernia.  

Duleep Trophy 2024/25 first-round fixtures

The Duleep Trophy 2024/25 first round will begin on September 5. In the opening round, Team A will face Team B at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Meanwhile, Team C and Team D will face each other in the opening round at Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh. 

Shubman Gill will lead Team A, while Abhimanyu Easwaran will captain Team B. Ruturaj Gaikwad will be the Team C skipper, and Shreyas Iyer will lead Team D. 

The revised squads for the first round of the Duleep Trophy 2024/25 

India A: Shubman Gill (C), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (WK), KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.

India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy (participation is subject to fitness), Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK).

India C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, 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, Ishan Kishan (WK), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (WK), Saurabh Kumar.