Umran Malik and Mohammad Siraj out of Duleep Trophy with illness

Mohammad Siraj and Umran Malik would not be participating in the first round of the forthcoming Duleep Trophy as they are ill and aren’t expected to be fit in time for the start of the tournament, the Indian Cricket Board stated via a release on Tuesday. 

Ace all rounder Ravindra Jadeja has also been released from the Team B squad, the reason for which wasn’t disclosed by the Indian Cricket Board. 

Fast bowler Navdeep Saini will replace Siraj in the Team B squad while Gaurav Yadav has been called in the place of Malik in Team C. Meanwhile, the involvement of Nitish Reddy, who is also a member of Team B, is subject to fitness. Nitish was recently named in India’s squad for the Zimbabwe series but had to be called back as he was suffering from sports hernia.

The competition begins on September 5. Team A and Team B will lock horns at the M Chinnaswamy stadium, Bengaluru whereas Team C and Team D will square off at the Rural Development Trust Stadium, Anantapur. Shubman Gill (Team A), Abhimanyu Easwaran (Team B), Ruturaj Gaikwad (Team C) and Shreyas Iyer (Team D) are the four skippers. 

Revised squads for first round  

India A: Shubman Gill (C), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (WK), KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.

India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK).

India C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), 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.

India 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.