Duleep Trophy Round 2, Day 1 Highlights: India A 288/8 at Stumps, India C 357/5

India A finished Day 1 at a score of 288/8 in 82 overs against India D. India C on the other hand finished at a score of 357/5 against India B. 

Shams Mulani and Tanush Kotian with their partnership have helped India A recover from the shaky start.  

Both the matches have entered the tea break

Shams Mulani has settled in strong for India A as he secured a half century. India A are closing in the 200 run mark.

The India C are still running strong after they secured 200+ runs in the scoreboard in Day one of the competition.

Ishan Kishan has put up a frmidable performance for India C! He scores a commanding score of 65 and pairing up nicely with Baba Indrajith

Kumar Kushagra has lost his wicket as Yash Dubey takes up the catch. Arshdeep gets two wickets to his name

Both teams are back in action at Anantpur

India A score 115 runs off 31 overs but they have also lost five wickets. it will be a huge positive for India D.

Sai Sudharsan and Rajat Patidar lose their wickets but put up some good contributions for the team. They contributed 80+ runs together. 

Ishan Kishan & baba Indrajith are on strike.

Shreyas Iyer effectively takes the cathch to dismiss Shashwat Rawat. He scored 15 before losing his wicket. 

Mulani walks in

The India B vs C match has Sai Sudharsan and Rajat Pattidar holding their ground as the bowlers aim for a breakthrough.

Shreyas Iyer makes the catch to dismiss Tilak Varma he goes back after scoring 10 runs off 33 balls.

Kumar Kushagra walks in 

Arshdeep was overjoyed after padikkal took the catch to dismiss Riyan Parag!

He walks back at 37 off 29 balls.

Shashwat Rawat Walks In.

Tilak Varma and Riyan Parag return to action for India A after drinks break.

India A vs India D: 54/2 (15)

India B vs India C: 67/0 (16)

Kaverappa takes down both the openers as he dismissed Pratham Singh. Arshdeep took the catch to dismiss the batter.

Riyan Parag walks in

Mayank Agarwal has to walk back after he failed to put an impact. He returns to the dressing room after scoring 7 runs. 
Tilak Varma walks in.

Ruturaj Gaikwad had to walk back to the dressing room after being retired hurt. Sai Sudharsan & Rajat Patidar will run the game now.

Mayank Agarwal & Pratham Singh take the charge as openers for India A as harshit Rana bowls the first over. The match is ON!

India B have won the toss and skipper Abhimanyu Easwaran has decided to bowl first in Anantpur.

India D have won the toss and skipper Shreyas Iyer has decided to bowl first

India A Captain Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, Kuldeep Yadav and Akash Deep have been named in India’s Test squad for the series against Bangladesh and will not feature in the upcoming round.

The selectors have named Pratham Singh (Railways) as a replacement for Gill, Akshay Wadkar (Vidarbha CA) as a replacement for KL Rahul and SK Rasheed (Andhra CA) as a replacement for Jurel. Left-arm spinner Shams Mulani will replace Kuldeep in the squad whereas Aaqib Khan (UPCA) will replace Akashdeep in the squad.

Mayank Agarwal has been named as the Captain of India A. 

Updated India A squad: Mayank Agarwal (C), Riyan Parag, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, SK Rasheed, Shams Mulani, Aaqib Khan

India B’s Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant have been named in India’s squad and the selectors have named Suyash Prabhudessai and Rinku Singh as replacements respectively. Fast bowler Yash Dayal has received his maiden national call-up while Sarfaraz Khan, who too has been named in India’s squad, will feature in the second-round game. Himanshu Mantri (Madhya Pradesh CA) has been added to the squad.  

Updated India B squad: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Sarfaraz Khan, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK), Suyash Prabhudessai, Rinku Singh, Himanshu Mantri (WK)

As Axar Patel will join Team India from Team D, he will be replaced by Nishant Sindhu (Haryana CA). Tushar Deshpande is ruled out of the second round owing to a niggle and he will be replaced by India A’s Vidwath Kaverappa.

India C squad remains unchanged for the second round. 

Updated India D squad: Shreyas lyer (C), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (WK), Saurabh Kumar, Sanju Samson (WK), Nishant Sindhu, Vidwath Kaverappa

Hello and welcome to the Round 2 action at the Duleep Trophy domestic tournament where India A, B, C, and D will lock horns in Anantpur to gain the edge. The Domestic Test action begins today at 09:30 AM IST.