The highly anticipated Duleep Trophy 2023 is about to commence on June 28 at the renowned M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. The tournament will adhere to its traditional zonal structure and begin with quarterfinal matches. South Zone and West Zone, last year’s finalists, have already secured a spot in the semi-finals. The first quarterfinal will witness Central Zone taking on East Zone in Alur, while the second quarterfinal will feature North Zone against North-East Zone in Bengaluru. All matches, except for the final, will be four-day contests resembling Test cricket. Unfortunately, there won’t be any live streaming available for this edition of the Duleep Trophy. However, cricket enthusiasts can rely on InsideSport’s live blogs for comprehensive updates throughout the tournament.
Let’s take a look at the squads participating in the Duleep Trophy 2023:
– West Zone: Priyank Panchal (Captain), Cheteshwar Pujara, Suryakumar Yadav, Harvik Desai (wk), Prithvi Shaw, Het Patel (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Arpit Vasavada, Atit Seth, Shams Mulani, Yuvraj Dodiya, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Chintan Gaja, Arzan Nagwaswalla. Coach: Tejas Varsani.
– South Zone: Hanuma Vihari (Captain), Mayank Agarwal (vc), Sai Sudharsan, Ricky Bhui (wk), R Samarth, Washington Sundar, Sachin Baby, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Sai Kishore, V Kaverappa, V Vyshak, KV Sasikanth, Darshan Misal, Tilak Varma. Coach: Hemant Angle.
– East Zone: Abhimanyu Easwaran (Captain), Shahbaz Nadeem (vc), Santanu Mishra, Sudip Gharami, Riyan Parag, A. Majumdar, Bipin Saurabh, A Porel (wk), K Kushagra (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Suryakant Pradhan, Akash Deep, Anukul Roy, M Mura Singh, Ishan Porel, Suryakant Pradhan. Coach: SS Rao.
– North Zone: Nehal Wadhera, Prashant Chopra, Dhruv Shorey, Manan Vohra, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Ankit Kumar, AS Kalsi, Harshit Rana, Abid Mushtaq, Jayant Yadav, Pulkit Narang, Nishant Sindhu, Sidharth Kaul, Vaibhav Arora, Baltej Singh. Standby players: Mayank Dagar, Mayank Markande, Ravi Chauhan, Anmol Mahotra, Diwesh Pathania, Divij Mehra, Kunal Mahajan. Withdrawn Players: Mandeep Singh (injury). Coach: Ajay Ratra.
– Central Zone: Shivam Mavi (Captain), Upendra Yadav (vc and wk), Vivek Singh, Himanshu Mantri, Kunal Chandela, Shubham Sharma, Amandeep Khare, Rinku Singh, Akshay Wadkar, Dhruv Jurel, Saurabh Kumar, Manav Suthar,
Saransh Jain, Avesh Khan, Yash Thakur. Coach: Nikhil Doru.
– North-East Zone: Rongsen Jonathan (Captain), Nilesh Lamichaney (vc), Kishan Lyngdoh, Langlonyamba, A.R. Ahlawat, Joseph Lalthankhuma, Prafullamani (wk), Dippu Sangma, Jotin Pheiroijam, Imliwati Lemtur, Palzor Tamang, Kishan Sinha, Akash Kumar Choudhary, Rajkumar Rex Singh, Nagaho Chishi. Reserves: Lee Yong Lepcha, Nabam Abo, Dika Ralte. Coach: Sonam Bhutia.
