Duleep Trophy: The four-day position competition will be held in a round-robin and finals organization and see support from three residential groups, in particular, India Red, India Green and India Blue. India Blue are the shielding champions, when they crushed India Red by an innings and 187 runs. The class phase of the competition will be day games which will be played with a red ball while the last will be multi day/night undertaking with pink ball. Every one of the matches will be played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Shubman Gill has been named India Blue skipper while Faiz Fazal and Priyank Panchal will lead India Green and India Red separately. The squads of the three groups are as per the following:
India Blue:
Shubman Gill (c), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rajat Patidar, Ricky Bhui, Anmolpreet Singh, Ankeet Bhawne, Snell Patel (wk), Shreyas Gopal, Saurabh Kumar, Jalaj Saxena, Tushar Deshpande, Basil Thampi, Aniket Choudhary, Diwesh Pathania and Ashutosh Amar.
India Green:
Faiz Fazal (c), Akshath Reddy, Dhruv Shorey, Siddhesh Lad, Priyam Garg, Akshdeep Nath, Rahul Chahar, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Ankit Rajpoot, Ishan Porel, Tanveer-ul-Haq, Akshay Wadkar (wk), Ajesh Mohanty and Miling Kumar.
India Red:
Priyank Panchal (c), Abhimanyu Easwaran, Axar Patel, Karun Nair, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hapreet Singh Bhatia, Mahipal Lomror, Aditya Sarwate, Akhsay Wakhare, Varun Aaron, Ronit More, Jaydev Unadkat, Sandeep Warrier and Ankit Walsi.
Just Final of the competition will be circulated live on TV. StarSports will do the live broadcast of the last which will begin at 2 pm. Like rest of the local game, the group games will begin at 9 am in the first part of the day. The live match updates of the group matches could be followed at BCCI.
TV Here’s the full calendar of the competition:
Match 1: 17-20 August India Blue Vs India Green
Match 2: 23-26 August India Red Vs India Blue
Match 3: 29 August-1 September India Red Vs India Green
FINAL: 4-8 September TBD Vs TBD