Ravindra Jadeja Released, Mohammed Siraj And Umran Malik Ruled Out of Duleep Trophy Due to Illness – News18
As many as three India cricketers have been ruled out from the upcoming first round of Duleep Trophy 2024 including Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj and Umran Malik. While no reason has been cited behind releasing Jadeja, BCCI says both Siraj and Umran are ill and will not recover in time to make the first round of the red-ball competition starting in the first week of September.
“Both Siraj and Malik are suffering from an illness and are not expected to be fit in time for their Duleep Trophy fixtures,” read a statement from BCCI.
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Siraj was set to represent Team B under the captaincy of Abhimanyu Easwaran and will be replaced by fellow India right-arm quick Navdeep Saini in the squad.
Meanwhile there were reports that Umran has recovered from dengue but it seems he’s still not fit enough to make his competitive return. He was to play for Team C under Ruturaj Gaikwad and will be replaced by by Madhya Pradesh pacer Gaurav Yadav.
No replacement has been announced for Jadeja. The tournament is set to begin from September 5, in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh and M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.
Here are the updated squads
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.
Note: Nitish Kumar Reddy’s participation in the Duleep Trophy is subject to fitness.
