New Delhi, September 10 (HS). The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the teams with some changes for the second round of the Duleep Trophy starting in Anantapur from September 12. Mayank Agarwal has been made the captain of India A.
India A captain Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, Kuldeep Yadav and Akash Deep have been named in India's Test squad for the series against Bangladesh and will not feature in the upcoming tour. The selectors have named Pratham Singh (Railways) in place of Gill, Akshay Wadkar (Vidarbha CA) in place of KL Rahul and SK Rashid (Andhra CA) in place of Jurel. Left-arm spinner Shams Mulani will replace Kuldeep in the squad, while Aaqib Khan (UPCA) will replace Akash Deep in the squad.
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant, who were included in India B, have been named in India's squad and the selectors have named Suyash Prabhudesai and Rinku Singh as replacements respectively. Fast bowler Yash Dayal has been included in the national team for the first time, while Sarfaraz Khan has also been included in India's squad. However, he will feature in the second round of games. Himanshu Mantri (Madhya Pradesh CA) has been included in the squad in place of Yash Dayal.
Axar Patel will join the Indian team from Team D. He will be replaced by Nishant Sindhu (Haryana CA). Tushar Deshpande has been ruled out of the second round due to injury and will be replaced by Vidwath Kaverappa of India A.
Updated India A squad: Mayank Agarwal (captain), Riyan Parag, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, SK Rashid, Shams Mulani, Aqib Khan.
Updated India B squad: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Sarfaraz Khan, Mushir Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (wicketkeeper), Suyash Prabhudesai, Rinku Singh, Himanshu Mantri (wicketkeeper).
Updated India D squad: Shreyas Iyer (c), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (wk), Saurabh Kumar, Sanju Samson (wk), Nishant Sindhu, Vidawath Kaverappa.
India C team will remain unchanged for the second round.