The Vijay Hazare Trophy title match was played on Friday 25 October and Manish Pandey lead Karnataka came out victorious against Dinesh Karthik’s Tamil Nadu. After this, another prestigious tournament of domestic cricket, Deodhar Trophy will start. Teams have been announced for the Deodhar Trophy. Hanuma Vihari has been elected India A captain, while India B will be led by India’s experienced wicket-keeper batsman Parthiv Patel. At the same time, the command of India C will be in the hands of young batsman Shubhman Gill. This tournament will be played in Ranchi from 31 October to 4 November.
These teams were announced in the senior selection committee meeting held in Mumbai. India A team includes players like veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan and Jaydev Unadkat. Ravichandran Ashwin has recently picked up the most wickets in a three-match Test series against South Africa. He showed the path of pavilion to 15 South African batsmen in this recently ended series.
At the same time, all-rounders Kedar Jadhav and Vijay Shankar have been included in the India B team. This team will be led by Parthiv Patel. Apart from this, Test opener Mayank Agarwal and senior wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik of India cricket team have been included in India C. Mayank Agarwal did well in the three-match Test series against South Africa. He scored a double century in the Visakhapatnam Test.
Team India veteran wicketkeeper batsman Parthiv Patel has been given the captaincy of India B team. He will be joined by 17 years old Yashasvi Jaiswal who scored a double century in Vijay Hazare Trophy.
India A: Hanuma Vihari (Captain), Devdutt Paddikal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Vishnu Vinod, Amandeep Khare, Abhishek Raman, Ishan Kishan (Wicket-Keeper), Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jaydev Unadkat, Sandeep Warrier, Siddharth Kaul, Bhargav Merai
India B: Parthiv Patel (Captain), Priyank Panchal, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Baba Aparajith, Kedar Jadhav, Rituraj Gaekwad, Shahbaz Nadeem, Anukul Roy, K. Gautam, Vijay Shankar, Mohammad Siraj, Roosh Kalaria, Prithviraj, Nitish Rana.
India C: Shubman Gill (Captain), Mayank Agarwal, Anmolpreet Singh, Suryakumar Yadav, Priyam Garg, Dinesh Karthik, Axar Patel, Mayank Markandey, Jalaj Saxena, Avesh Khan, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ishan Porel, DG Pathania, Virat Singh.