Vijay Hazare Trophy 2017/18: Yusuf Pathan Included in Baroda Squad; Deepak Hooda to Lead

Yusuf Pathan has made his comeback to competitive cricket after serving a ban of five months.

The 35-year-old all-rounder has been included in the 15-member Baroda side for the upcoming Vijay Hazare Trophy. However, as per the board release,

Pathan was banned by BCCI for five months after he failed the dope test. However, BCCI was satisfied with his response, and his ban was lifted on January 15, after he served it for five months. BCCI had asked Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) not to select the player. Hence, he was not selected in the squad for last four Ranji games and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Surprisingly, he was also not selected for the Super League of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

He now made a comeback to competitive cricket and is all set to play the first game of the season. He was also bought by Sunriers Hyderabad during IPL auction for an amount of Rs 1.90 Crore.

Deepak Hooda will continue to lead the team in the ongoing season. He was appointed as the captain of the side during Ranji Trophy after selectors replaced Irfan Pathan with the youngster.

Baroda side includes star all-rounder Krunal Pandya, who hit the jackpot during the IPL auction. He was retained by Mumbai Indians for a huge amount of Rs 8.80 Crore by the use of Right to Match (RTM) card. He was initially sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore, but Mumbai Indians took no time to exercise their RTM card once the bidding was over.

Krunal Devdhar, Aditya Waghmode, Swapnil Singh, Ninad Rathwa are few other players in the side. In last year’s Vijay Hazare Trophy, Baroda qualified for the semi-final of the tournament and the team will look to take inspiration from that success. The Deepak Hooda-led side will face Karnataka, Haryana, Punjab, Railways, Odisha and Assam during the league phase of the tournament.

Deepak Hooda (Captain), Atit Sheth, Krunal Pandya, Kedar Devdhar, Aditya Waghmode, Yusuf Pathan, Vishnu Solanki, Swapnil Singh, Ninad Rthva, Urvil Patel (WK), Rishi Arothe, Lukman Meriwala, Soaeb Tai, Dhruv Patel, Viraj Bhosale (WK).

Here is Tripura squad for Vijay Hazare Trophy –

Manisankar Murasingh(c), Udiyan Bose, Abhijit Chakraborty, Shyam Gon, Kaushal Acharjee, Joydeep Banik, Joydeep Bhattacharjee, Saurabh Das, Rajat Dey, Bishal Ghosh, Gurinder Singh, Smit Patel, Abhijit Sarkar, Yashpal Singh.

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