BENGALURU: The Duleep Trophy is about to return to its conventional zonal from subsequent 12 months after the state items gave a thumbs all the way down to the four-team idea launched this season. The red-ball occasion featured 4 groups — India A, India B, India C, India D. India A beat India C to win the competitors earlier this month.
Normally, six groups from as many zones — central, east, west, north, south and north east — participate within the event, offering extra alternatives to the gamers from their respective zones.
“The state items felt the format used this season didn’t give a good illustration to the gamers from their respective zones. The normal zonal format offers gamers extra alternatives zone smart and that’s what was conveyed within the AGM immediately,” a state unit official informed PTI after the BCCI AGM in Bengaluru.
The BCCI had rebranded the Duleep Trophy this season and the event attracted loads of eyeballs with some star India gamers being a part of the primary spherical.
Rishabh Pant marked his red-ball comeback on this event scoring a confidence-boosting half-century. Shubman Gill captained the India A facet within the opening spherical earlier than handing over the management duties to Mayank Agarwal to hitch the India Take a look at squad for the continuing sequence in opposition to Bangladesh.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Akash Deep, Kuldeep Yadav, Ok L Rahul and Dhruv Jurel had been the India gamers who had been a part of the event.
Akash’s splendid effort within the opening spherical helped him retain his place within the India squad whereas it additionally gave alternatives to the subsequent line of cricketers to make an influence forward of a busy Take a look at season.
Left-arm pacer Yash Dayal too was picked for the Assessments after a powerful outing within the Duleep Trophy.
Shreyas Iyer, dropped for the Bangladesh sequence, captained India D and Ruturaj Gaikwad, who’s but to play Take a look at cricket, led India C.
Ishan Kishan, who like Iyer misplaced his central contract for not following BCCI’s directive to play home cricket, made a memorable comeback with a superb hundred.
The presence of India regulars and fringe gamers put contemporary life into the occasion.
