Siraj and Umran are ruled out due to illness for the Duleep Trophy 2024; Jadeja is free

The upcoming Duleep Trophy, which is scheduled to start on September 5, has freed India’s all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja from the Team B squad. Although the cause of the same is unknown, he is still eligible to be selected for the next two-match Test series against Bangladesh. Pacers Umran Malik and Mohammed Siraj will also be absent from the local competition because of illness.

In Team B, Gaurav Gupta will take over for Umran, and in Team C, Navdeep Saini will take over for Siraj.

The BCCI, or Board of Control for Cricket in India, has not yet revealed Jadeja’s successor for the competition. Notably, Umran had dengue but had just lately resumed his practice. He said he is totally focused on performing well in the Duleep Trophy following his recuperation while he was training at the National Cricket Academy (NCA). He will not be able to compete in the event, though, as it is thought that his health has declined.

Two locations—M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru and Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh—will host the competition. Among the players participating in the competition are Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, and Kuldeep Yadav.

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Star players like Jasprit Bumrah, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rohit Sharma, and Virat Kohli were rested so they would be fit for the ten Test matches that were coming up.

Duleep Trophy 2024 revised squads

India A: Shubman Gill (C), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (WK), KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.

India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK).

India C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (WK), Sandeep Warrier.

India D: Shreyas lyer (C), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (WK), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (WK), Saurabh Kumar.