Jadeja, Siraj and Umran Malik will not play Duleep Trophy: BCCI released updated teams, Navdeep Saini and Gaurav Yadav got a chance

Indian all-rounders Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Siraj and Umran Malik will not participate in the current season of Duleep Trophy. The Indian team’s selection committee has released Jadeja from Team B, while Siraj and Malik are ill. The committee has included Navdeep Saini in Team B in place of Siraj and Gaurav Yadav in Team C in place of Umran Malik. The tournament is starting from September 5. This time the matches are to be played in Anantapur and Bengaluru. Nitish Kumar Reddy’s playing will depend on his fitness. 4 teams were announced on 14 August
The BCCI selection committee had announced the teams for this tournament 13 days ago on 14 August. The selectors had left the decision of whether Indian captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will play or not to them. Bumrah was given rest. Shreyas Iyer, who did not play Ranji last year despite the selectors’ request, was chosen as the captain of Team D. Ishan Kishan was also given a place. Apart from Iyer, opener Shubman Gill has been made the captain of Team A, Abhimanyu Easwaran of Team B and Rituraj Gaikwad of Team C. Rishabh Pant, who returned from a car accident, was selected in Team B. Duleep Trophy will be played in a new format
Duleep Trophy will be played in a new format this season. It will not be held in zonal format like before. The selection panel led by Ajit Agarkar will select 4 teams India A, India B, India C and India D, which will participate in the tournament. New teams selected for Duleep Trophy… Team A: Shubman Gill (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, KL Rahul, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akashdeep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwat Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shashvat Rawat. Team B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Mushir Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan. Team C: Rituraj Gaikwad (Captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rajat Patidar, Abhishek Porel, Suryakumar Yadav, Baba Indrajit, Hrithik Shokin, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vijaykumar Vaishakh, Anshul Kamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal, Sandeep Warrier. Team D: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Atharva Tayde, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan, Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thackeray, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat and Saurav Kumar.