The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah mentioned on Thursday that star batters Rohit and Virat Kohli shouldn’t be insisted on enjoying Duleep Trophy since exposing them extra could have a danger of accidents. The Duleep Trophy, which marks the start of red-ball cricket within the home season, will characteristic high India stars from the worldwide circuit and rising abilities competing on the highest stage. The match is ready to start on September 5, 2024, in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh and M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.
Although BCCI is encouraging high Indian gamers and regulars to participate in home cricket extra often, Shah mentioned that the 2 cricketing icons shouldn’t be insisted on enjoying within the match to cut back the possibility of them sustaining accidents. He additionally famous how in Australia and England, each worldwide participant doesn’t play home cricket.
In a media interplay with Mumbai, as quoted by Wisden, Shah mentioned, “We should always not insist on gamers like Rohit and Virat to play within the Duleep Trophy. They may danger harm. If in case you have seen, in Australia and England, each worldwide participant doesn’t play home cricket. We now have to deal with the gamers with respect.”
Notably, India’s key gamers of red-ball cricket, together with captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah, is not going to characteristic within the competitors.
Rohit’s final look within the match was again in 2016 whereas for Virat it was again in 2010, when he was but to characteristic in a Take a look at for India.
He additionally mentioned that different notable names will likely be concerned in home cricket through the coming days, notably Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer who misplaced their BCCI central contracts resulting from their alleged lack of participation in home red-ball cricket.
“Aside from them, everybody else is enjoying. You must admire that. One should notice that Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer are enjoying within the Buchi Babu match,” added Shah.
The Buchi Babu match, which is beginning on Thursday will see the participation from Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan, and Suryakumar Yadav representing their state groups.
Star India batters Rishabh Pant, Kishan, Shubman Gill and plenty of extra gamers are set to characteristic within the Duleep Trophy 2024-25 season.
Notably, pacer Prasidh Krishna will make his comeback after serving a prolonged interval on the sidelines resulting from harm. Since 2019, Krishan’s profession has been tormented by accidents. He sustained a stress fracture on his left leg in 2019, a stress fracture of the again in 2022, and a quadriceps harm in 2024.
Younger batter Tilak Varma has additionally been included within the match. He suffered a wrist harm in direction of the tip of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.
Teenager Musheer Khan, who starred for India within the Underneath-19 World Cup, has been rewarded for his consistency. The 19-year-old all-rounder loved a breakout season after lifting the Ranji Trophy with Mumbai earlier this 12 months. Musheer will look to make his mark after being included within the Duleep Trophy.
Younger all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy has additionally been included within the first spherical of the match, however his participation stays topic to health.
Gamers who will likely be chosen to characterize India for the house Take a look at sequence in opposition to Bangladesh will likely be changed within the Duleep Trophy. India will kick off the Take a look at sequence in opposition to Bangladesh on September 19 on the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.
The 4 squads for the primary spherical of the match:
Staff A: Shubman Gill (C), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.
Staff B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd Siraj, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK).
Staff C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Umran Malik, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (WK), Sandeep Warrier.
Staff D: Shreyas lyer (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.
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