Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami take on each other in Deodhar Trophy
Updated - 04 Mar 2018, 04:32 PM
The Indian 2017/18 domestic season has reached its later stages with all the state competitions of all three formats done and dusted; it’s time for the Deodhar Trophy.
The format of the tournament is a tri-series event. The top performers in the Vijay Hazare trophy are divided into two teams. The third team is the winner of the Vijay Hazare, i.e. Karnataka.
Players look at the tournament as a platform to make a name for them and get into the Indian team in the limited overs format.
Top performers in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy try to get into the reckoning for the limited overs side in the 50 overs format via this tournament.
However, some of the discarded players in the national team also look up to this tournament to make a comeback to the team.
With the Indian team performing well in the 50 overs format players like Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami would be looking forward to making an impression in the tournament and make a comeback in the national team.
Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are performing well. India’s primary fast bowlers Shami and Yadav have been over-looked in the limited overs format.
India A will be led by Maharashtra batsman Ankit Bawne after Ravichandran Ashwin pulled out of the tournament due to a niggle.
India ‘A’ batting department has U-19 World Cup stars Shubman Gill and Prithvi Shaw in their ranks along with Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav. Unmukt Chand might open the batting with Shaw.
Shami will lead the bowling department along with Navdeep Saini and Basil Thampi. Shahbaz Nadeem will be the lone specialist spinner while Krunal Pandya will be their all-rounder.
India ‘B’ has Shreyas Iyer in the batting department along with Maharashtra opener Ruturaj Gaikwad, Bengal captain Manoj Tiwary. Opener Abhimanyu Easwaran and Mumbai’s highest run-getter in Vijay Hazare Siddhesh Lad.
On the other hand, Jayant Yadav has also been added to the side purely by his records having played both Tests and ODIs for India.
Concluding, the bowling department has the likes of Umesh, Siddarth Kaul and Harshal Patel as the fast bowlers.
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