Duleep Trophy to feature six Tamil Nadu players

Mumbai

The tournament featuring 45 cricketers will be played with pink ball under floodlights. Abhinav Mukund will lead the India Red side which also has Dinesh Karthik and Baba Indrajith from Tamil Nadu. 

Murali Vijay, who is coming back after injury, will be part of India Green squad led by Parthiv Patel. Tamil Nadu limited overs captain Vijay Shankar and Kaushik Gandhi will feature for India Blue.

TEAMS: 

India Red: Abhinav Mukund (C), Priyank Panchal, Sudip Chatterjee, Ishank Jaggi, Ambati Rayudu, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant (Wk), Baba Indrajith, K Gowtham, Karn Sharma, Basil Thampi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ashok Dinda, Rahul Singh, CV Milind.

India Green: Murali Vijay, R Samarth, Prashant Chopra, Shreyas Iyer, Karun Nair, Ankit Bawne, Parthiv Patel (C & Wk), Shahbaz Nadeem, Parvez Rasool, Navdeep Saini, Mohammad Siraj, Sidharth Kaul, Mayank Dagar, Nitin Saini, Aniket Choudhary. 

India Blue: Suresh Raina (C), Samit Gohel, KS Bharat, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Manoj Tiwary, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Ishan Kishan (wk), Jayant Yadav, Bharghav Bhatt, Kaushik Gandhi, Ishant Sharma, Ankit Rajpoot, Sagun Kamat, Jaydev Unadkat.

Schedule:

• Match 1: India Red vs India Green, September 7-10, Lucknow 
• Match 2: India Red vs India Blue, September 13-16, Kanpur 
• Match 3: India Blue vs India Green, September 19-22, Kanpur 
• Final: September 25-29, Lucknow

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