India Announces Squad Changes for Duleep Trophy</hBoard of Control for Artic Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced changes to the India A, India B, and India D squads for the second round of the Doleep Trophy, starting from September 12 in Anantapur.

Changes in India B Squad

Rinku Singh and Suyash Prabhudessai have been named as replacements for Rishabh Pant and Yashasvi Jaiswal in the India B squad. This change comes after the duo was named in India’s squad for the first Test against Bangladesh in Chennai from September 19.

Changes in India A Squad

The selectors have named Pratham Singh (Railways) as a replacement for Shubman Gill, Akshay Wadkar (Vidyarbha CA) as a replacement for KL Rahul, and SK Rasheed (Andhra CA) as a replacement for Dhruv Jurel. Left-arm spinner Shams Mulani will replace Kuldeep Yadav, while Aaqib Khan (UPCA) will replace Akash Deep in the squad.

Other Changes

Mayank Agarasi has been named as the Captain of India A. Fast bowler Yash Dayal has received his maiden national call-up, while Sarfaraz Khan will feature in the second-round game. Himanshu Mantri (Madhya Pradesh CA) has been added to the India B squad.

Replacements and Additions

As Axar Patel will join Team India from Team D, he will be replaced by Nishant Sindhu (Haryana CA). Tushar Deshpande is ruled out of the second round owing to a niggle and will be replaced by India A’s Vidwath Kaverappa.

Updated Squads

India A Squad

– Mayank Agarwal (C)
– Riyan Parag
– Tilak Varma
– Shivam Dube
– Tanush Kotian
– Prasidh Krishna
– Khaleel Ahmed
– Avesh Khan
– Kumar Kushagra
– Shaswat Rawat
– Pratham Singh
– Akshay Wadkar
– SK Rasheed
– Shams Mulani
– Aaqib Khan

India B Squad

– Abhimanyu Easwaran (C)
– Sarfaraz Khan
– Musheer Khan
– Nitish Kumar Reddy
– Washington Sundar
– Navdeep S Art
– Mukesh Kumar
– Rahul Chahar
– R Sai Kishore
– Mohit Awasthi
– N Jagadeesan (WK)
– Suyash Prabhudessai
– Rinku Singh
– Himanshu Mantri (WK)

India C Squad

– 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 Squad

– Shreyas Iyer (C)
– Atharva Taide
– Yash Dubey
– Devdutt Padikkal
– Ricky Bhui
– Saransh Jain
– Arshdeep Singh
– Aditya Thakare
– Harshit Rana
– Akash Sengupta
– KS Bharat (WK)
– Saurabh Kumar
– Sanju Samson (WK)
– Nishant Sindhu
– Vidwath Kaverappa