Duleep Trophy | Likelihood for Shreyas to re-establish his red-ball credentials

Shreyas Iyer. File.  Photograph: Periasamy M/ The Hindu.
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Shreyas Iyer’s shot at redeeming himself in red-ball cricket will start on Thursday (September 5, 2024) when he leads Crew-D in opposition to Ruturaj Gaikwad’s Crew-C within the first spherical of the Duleep Trophy on the Rural Belief Growth Stadium in Anantapur.

The 29-year-old, who final performed a Take a look at for India in February, was omitted from the BCCI central contract listing for not representing Mumbai within the Ranji Trophy quarterfinal final season.

Ishan Kishan was purported to accompany Shreyas within the journey, however an harm suffered through the Buchi Babu invitational match has reportedly dominated him out. Suryakumar Yadav’s hand harm, additionally suffered through the the identical match, meant Crew-C was additionally not spared.

In Suryakumar’s absence, Ruturaj would want all the assistance he can get from the Tamil Nadu duo of B. Indrajith and Sai Sudharsan, with the latter heading in on the again of a County Championship hundred.

Rajat Patidar’s unconvincing maiden worldwide task in opposition to England, the place he scored simply 63 runs in six innings, uncovered his discomfort in opposition to the tweakers. This might make Axar Patel an efficient choice in opposition to the Madhya Pradesh batter.

Axar’s all-round skills can even go a great distance in reinforcing Crew-D’s batting too, which seems to run skinny in Ishan’s absence. Devdutt Padikkal, Yash Dubey, and Atharva Taide are more likely to kind the highest order, with Shreyas and considered one of Ok.S. Bharat or Ricky Bhui anchoring the center order.

Within the 16 First Class video games performed on the venue, pacers have accounted for 361 batters. Spinners, then again, have simply 112 wickets. If the pitch performs the identical, in Arshdeep Singh, Tushar Deshpande, and Harshit Rana, Crew-D has a tempo trio that may extract probably the most out of it.

Crew-C’s tempo battery is of a unique mould. Between them, Gaurav Yadav and Sandeep Warrier have 112 First Class video games. Vyshak Vijayakumar, who has performed 20 FC matches, is the likeliest third-seam choice.

The squads:

Crew-C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Capt.), 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.

Crew-D: Shreyas lyer (Capt.), 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.