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New Delhi, September 3 (HS). Suryakumar Yadav has been ruled out of the opening round of the 2024-25 Duleep Trophy after he suffered a hand injury during a pre-season match for Mumbai at the Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament in Coimbatore last week. Suryakumar has been advised to rest and is currently at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru for regular checkups.
According to ESPNcricinfo, Suryakumar did not bat in the second innings of the match against TNCA XI last week after he injured his hand while fielding on the third day. At the time, the Mumbai team management had confirmed that the move was a precautionary measure keeping in mind his participation in the season-opening Duleep Trophy.
India's T20 captain Suryakumar has recently expressed his eagerness to return to Tests. Having not played any first-class cricket for over a year, Suryakumar made himself available for the pre-season Buchi Babu tournament to prepare himself for red-ball cricket with India scheduled to play 10 Tests over the next five months, starting with a two-match series against Bangladesh in Chennai from September 19.
Suryakumar, who has played only one Test so far against Australia last year, has been included in the India C squad, led by Rituraj Gaikwad, which will take on Shreyas Iyer's India D in Anantapur. India A and India B will play the second preliminary round match together at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Recently, fast bowlers Mohammed Siraj and Umran Malik were also ruled out of the opening round of the Duleep Trophy due to illness, and Ravindra Jadeja was recalled, although the BCCI did not give any reason for his recall. Navdeep Saini and Gaurav Yadav will replace Siraj and Malik for India B and C teams respectively.
Meanwhile, Nitish Kumar Reddy has been declared fit by the NCA. He was included on a fitness condition due to a groin injury that forced him to miss India's T20I squad for Zimbabwe in July.
Revised teams for the first round of Duleep Trophy-
India A: Shubman Gill (c), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (wk), KL Rahul, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kavarappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shashvat Rawat.
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Mushir Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (wicketkeeper).
India C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar, Abhishek Porel (wicketkeeper), B Indrajit, Rithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav V Shek Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper), Sandeep Warrier.
India D: Shreyas Iyer (c), Atharva Tayade, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (wk), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, K.S. Bharat (wk), Saurabh Kumar.