NEW DELHI: Punjab top-order batter Mandeep Singh was on Thursday appointed captain of the North Zone squad for the upcoming Duleep Trophy.

The tournament is scheduled to be played in Tamil Nadu from September 8 to 25. Experienced Delhi batter Dhruv Shorey will be Mandeep’s deputy in the premier zonal event. Bengal’s seasoned run-machine Manoj Tiwary will lead the East Zone team and will be assisted by Jharkhand’s Virat Singh.

SQUAD: North Zone: Yash Dhull, Dhruv Shorey (vc), Manan Vohra, Mandeep Singh (c), Himanshu Rana, Akash Vashisht, Anmol Malhotra (wk), Mayank Dagar, Pulkit Narang, Navdeep Saini, Siddharth Kaul, Jagjit Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Qamran Iqbal and Vikas Mishra. East Zone: Manoj Tiwary (c), Sudip Kr Gharami, Anushtup Majumdar, Abhishek Porel (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Ishan Porel, Akash Deep, Virat Singh (vc), Nazim Siddiqui, Kumar Kushagra, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mukhtar Hussain, Riyan Parag, Mani Shankar Mura Singh and Shantanu Mishra

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