On Wednesday, August 14, the BCCI Men’s Selection Committee unveiled the squads for the initial round of the Duleep Trophy 2024-25.

The Duleep Trophy, which signals the start of the domestic red-ball cricket season, will showcase both top international players and promising emerging talent competing at a high level.

Shubman Gill has been appointed as the captain of Team A, which will also include international players like KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, and Dhruv Jurel, among others.

Abhimanyu Easwaran will lead Team B, with notable players such as Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, and Mohammed Siraj in the squad.

Team C will be captained by Ruturaj Gaikwad, featuring key players like Suryakumar Yadav, Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, and Umran Malik.

Shreyas Iyer will head Team D, which boasts a lineup including Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Ishan Kishan, and Devdutt Padikkal, among others.

The First-Class tournament is scheduled to commence on September 5, 2024, in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, and at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

According to a BCCI statement, players chosen for India’s home Test series against Bangladesh will be replaced in the Duleep Trophy.

Nitish Kumar Reddy’s involvement in the Duleep Trophy depends on his fitness.

Here are the four squads:

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

**Team B:** Abhimanyu Easwaran (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (Wicketkeeper).

**Team C:** Ruturaj Gaikwad (Captain), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (Wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Umran Malik, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (Wicketkeeper), Sandeep Warrier.

**Team D:** Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (Wicketkeeper), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (Wicketkeeper), Saurabh Kumar.