Axar Patel To Lead Gujarat In Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2018

India all-rounder, Axar Patel,  will lead Gujarat in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Zonal League. The tournament will be a dress rehearsal for him before he flies out to South Africa for the ODI series.

Along with Axar, leggie,  Piyush Chawla, India A player, Priyank Panchal have also been named. Surprisingly, the name of Siddharth Desai was absent from the list, who was the second highest wicket-taker for Gujarat in the Ranji Trophy.

The T20 tournament is a platform for the players especially Piyush Chawla, to perform well and put a case in front of the franchises before the IPL auction. However, it will just be a rehearsal for Axar rather than attracting franchises as he was retained by Kings XI Punjab on the retention day.

Surprisingly, he was the only player which the franchise decided to retain. He was paid an amount of Rs. 12.5 Crore.  Axar will just play Zonal League and will depart for the ODI series after the end of the tournament.

Gujarat will be without the services of Parthiv Patel too, who is with the Test squad in South Africa. He is expected to get a place in the playing XI only if Wriddhiman Saha sits out of any game.

Gujarat will face Maharashtra, Mumbai, Baroda, and Saurashtra in the first phase of the tournament.

Squad: Axar Patel (Captain), Priyank Panchal, Rohit Dahiya, Rujul Bhatt, Ishwar Chaudhary, Piyush Chawla, Chintan Gaja, Chirag Gandhi, Bhargav Merai, Chirag Parmar, Dhruv Raval, Santosh, Shinde, Kshitij Patel, Jayveer Parmar, Karan Patel.

Sachin Baby to lead Kerala, Samson, Thampi included –

Sachin Baby will lead Kerala in the upcoming Zonal T20 league. Kerala include players like Sanju Samson, Jalaj Saxena, Basil Thampi, Arun Karthik and Vishnu Vinod to name a few.

Samson was not retained by Delhi Daredevils in the IPL retention, hence, he would look to do well so as to get a buyer in the auction. Vinod and Thampi also played in IPL 2017 and will go under the hammer during auction ceremony on January 27 and 28. This tournament will be an opportunity for them to do well and present a case in front of IPL franchises.

Kerala squad: Sachin Baby, Abhishek Mohan, Arun Karthik, Basil Thampi, Fabid Ahmed, Daryl Ferrario,
Sijomon Joseph, Rohan Prem, Salman Nizar, Sanju Samson, Sandeep Warrier, Jalaj Saxena, Vinod Kumar, Vishnu Vinod, KM Asif

Andhra Pradesh squad: Ricky Bhui, Hanuma Vihari (Captain),  Ashwin Hebbar, Bandaru Ayyappa, Srikar Bharat, Girinath Reddy, Pranith Manyala, Prasanth Kumar, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, KV Sasikanth, Shoaib Md Khan, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Dasari Swaroop,

Goa squad: Sagun Kamat, Felix Alemao, Sumiran Amonkar, Swapnil Asnodkar, Amogh Sunil Desai, Srinivas Fadte, Lakshay Garg , Rajashekhar Harikant, Darshan Misal, Hrishikesh Naik,
Amulya Pandrekar, Achit Shigwan, Keenan Vaz. 

Odisha squad: Anurag Sarangi (Captain), Sandeep Patnaik, Rajesh Dhuper(WK), Paresh Patel, Subhranshu Senapati (VC), Devender Singh Kunwar, Prayas Singh
Thakur, Abhishek Rout, Suryakanta Pradhan, Alok Sahoo, Debabrata
Pradhan, Jayanta Behera, Ashutosh Das, Debasish Samantaray and Lagnajit
Samal. 

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