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Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli Agreed To Play Duleep Trophy, Says Report. Later Backed Out Saying…

Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli Agreed To Play Duleep Trophy, Says Report. Later Backed Out Saying…

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Team India’s catastrophic performance against New Zealand in the 3-match Test series against New Zealand has raised many questions about the players’ preparation. India comprehensively defeated Bangladesh in a 2-match Test series before gearing up for the New Zealand assignment. At the same time, there were suggestions of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, R Ashwin, and Jasprit Bumrah‘s participation in the Duleep Trophy, as part of the preparations for the Bangladesh and New Zealand series. But, none of the four featured in the domestic competition, much to the disappointment of some experts. After India’s 0-3 series loss against the Kiwis, many former cricketers have suggested that lack of match practice is one of the biggest reasons behind the embarrassing result. Now, a report has suggested that all four of Kohli, Rohit, Ashwin, and Bumrah had agreed to feature in the Duleep Trophy but later withdrew their interest. According to a report in The Indian Express, the selectors had made all arrangements for the quartet’s participation in the Duleep Trophy, which was held in Bengaluru …

Before home series, selectors wanted top Test cricketers to get match practice at Duleep Trophy, they said no | Cricket News

Before home series, selectors wanted top Test cricketers to get match practice at Duleep Trophy, they said no | Cricket News

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AHEAD OF the home Test season, the selection committee wanted top Indian players to get some match practice in the Duleep Trophy, as preparation for the home series against Bangladesh and New Zealand, but they refused to play the domestic tournament citing “lack of motivation”, The Indian Express has learnt. On Sunday, several experts felt that lack of adequate match practice was a key reason behind the 0-3 whitewash at home against the Kiwis. “They should have had some practice, definitely. It’s a long gap. I know we beat Bangladesh and therefore, it looked as if it was going to be a cakewalk against New Zealand,” former India captain Sunil Gavaskar told The Indian Express on Sunday. “But New Zealand, obviously, had a better attack, with cricketers who have played in India and in the IPL, who have a sense of what Indian pitches do,” he said. Most of the senior cricketers were far from their best, especially against New Zealand. They were found wanting in dealing with home conditions and negotiating the turning ball, …

Could India have avoided whitewash if Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli had played Duleep Trophy matches | Cricket News

Could India have avoided whitewash if Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli had played Duleep Trophy matches | Cricket News

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This isn’t a wake-up call. Nor this is a freak, one-off series where India got the worst of the conditions. A 0-3 whitewash at home for the first time in its history was a sign of things to come for India. The signs were coming over the last two home seasons where unheralded spinners had Indian batsmen wanting in their own conditions. Having lost only two Test matches from 2013 to 2020, they had lost three between 2021 to 2024 when Bangladesh and New Zealand were lined up for their home season. It would have been a good time for Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to go back to the domestic fold when Duleep Trophy fixtures were out. Rohit hasn’t played a Ranji Trophy fixture since 2015. Kohli has not played since 2012. Playing Duleep Trophy would have been an ideal preparation. But they chose a break. And it isn’t a mere coincidence that Rohit and Kohli endured a season to forget, averaging 13.3 and 19.2 in 10 innings against Bangladesh and New Zealand. Their …

Duleep Trophy Likely To Return To Zonal Format From Next Season

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The Duleep Trophy is set to return to its traditional zonal from next year after the state units gave a thumbs down to the four-team concept introduced this season. The red-ball event featured four teams — India A, India B, India C, India D. India A beat India C to win the competition earlier this month. Usually, six teams from as many zones — central, east, west, north, south and north east — take part in the tournament, providing more opportunities to the players from their respective zones. “The state units felt the format used this season did not give a fair representation to the players from their respective zones. The traditional zonal format gives players more opportunities zone wise and that is what was conveyed in the AGM today,” a state unit official told PTI after the BCCI AGM in Bengaluru. The BCCI had rebranded the Duleep Trophy this season and the tournament attracted plenty of eyeballs with some star India players being part of the first round. Rishabh Pant marked his …

Duleep Trophy: India A’s late surge beats India C & clinch trophy as Prasidh Krishna & Tanush Kotian upstage Sai Sudharsan ton | Cricket News

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When Anshul Kamboj, the last India C batsman, took a last-gasp review, the India A players had begun scurrying for souvenir stumps. Some were dancing to the beats of a drum-band in the stands, when the umpires gestured to them to stop their celebrations and plant the stumps back. Their collective gaze turned to the miniature screen on the corner of the ground, where a few impatient government officials were badgering the guards to let them enter the ground and drag the players for selfies. But after the first replay, everyone in the ground — a few boisterous thousands — knew Kamboj was as adjacent as he could be and India A had won the game – by 132 runs – as well as the tournament. When the small screen upheld the decision, they hunted for the stumps again, in an exuberant release of pent-up nervous energy. Few would have anticipated India C’s dramatic collapse in the final session. The game was meandering to a draw before India A pulled it back with the dint …

Duleep Trophy: Arshdeep Singh proves red-ball credentials with 6-wkt haul as India D thrash India | Cricket News

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In the tiny patio of the India D dressing room, Arshdeep Singh sought a marker to inscribe his match figures on the ball. A scorer passing by flung him one — he verified if it was not red — and hurriedly scrawled the sweet labour of the day on the ragged leather. It read: 11.2-3-40-6, and then read the numbers again with glowing eyes. Arshdeep waved at the horde of admirers waiting for him and vanished into the box-shaped dressing room, saying apologetically that he was tired, but with a relieved smile. As an afterthought, he turned back and said: “It’s a reward for my efforts with the red ball. I will never forget it.” The left-arm pacer was too drained to compose a metre-perfect couplet — which he might do after an ice bath and rest in his hotel room — and dealt in platitudes. But for eighty-odd minutes, in an unbroken spell, he made the ball sing devilish tunes, helping his side inflict a 257-run defeat over an India B side that boasted …

Shashwat Rawat, Prasidh Krishna lead India A to Duleep Trophy title with thrilling win over India C in round 3 – India TV

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Image Source : BCCIDOMESTIC/X Riyan Parag and Shahswat Rawat during the Duleep Trophy match in Anantapur on September 22, 2024 Mayank Agarwal‘s India A clinched the Duleep Trophy 2024 title after beating India C in the thrilling final-round on Sunday, September 22. The rising batter Shashwat Rawat and star pacer Prasidh Krishna shone to lead India A to the 132-run win over Ruturaj Gaikwad’s team in Anantapur. Chasing a 350-run target in on Day 4, India C needed a win or a draw doe clinch the title but India A bowlers produced an impressive display to bowl out their opponents to 217 runs with just 4.2 overs remaining to stumps.  Sai Sudharsan scored a brilliant century and Gaikwad scored a crucial 44 runs to take the game to the wire but Prasidh Krishna made a late impact with two big wickets of Sudharsan and Baba Indrajith to lead India A to glory. Shashwat Rawat made the biggest impact with a century in the first innings and a quick fifty in the second innings to wrap up …

Matinee idol Suryakumar Yadav struggles, while unsung Abhimanyu Easwaran goes the whole hog in Duleep Trophy | Cricket News

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The burly men under the sprawling gulmohar tree were stretching their legs and stifling their yawns when Suryakumar Yadav bristled onto the ground, shortly after lunch. The half-sleepy audience sat transfixed in the aura of a cricketing superstar making a rare appearance in a featureless mofussil town. Everything else blurred into the backdrop, the strokeful hundred of Sanju Samson a distant memory, the crisp stroke-play of Abhimanyu Easwaran, whose twenty fifth first-class hundred that composed the spine of India B’s 210 for 6 in response to India D’s 349, rendered utterly immaterial. This was what they wanted to watch. Yadav with the bat that he often wields as both a compass, in its sweeping reach, and a scalpel, in its cold-eyed accuracy. As he took guard, they chewed their nails and fretted on the seats waiting for the Yadav show to begin. And he walked out like a matinee idol, with a twinkling halo. But like overhyped, but clumsy superstar movies, the Yadav flick in Anantapur, the district’s notorious caste wars a fodder for several …

Duleep Trophy: Sanju Samson wins battle with self, Shreyas Iyer self-destructs | Cricket News

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When twilight set in, the beat of the drums quietened and the bowlers waited for stumps on an exactingly hot day at Anantapur, Sanju Samson embarked on his most testing battle of the day. The one with the self, the one that he had often lost. He had breezed to 80 off 70 balls without breaking much sweat. But with a century in sight, the tussle was no longer with the bowlers and conditions, but one with his own mind. The temptation of a hundred must have teased, as it would for most batsmen. The dilemma would have winked in—should I wait for the next day and start all over again or should I just swing for glory? The vicinity of a milestone plays bizarre tricks on a sportsman’s thinking. But Sanju chose the path of patience. Sensing the irresistible momentum he had worked himself into, India B sensed an opportunity and conceived traps. Spinners fed him with floaty invitations to clear the fence, fielders were stacked on the leg-side for leg-spinner Rahul Chahar, enticing …

Shreyas Iyer Flops Again But Sanju Samson Makes A Strong Case With Good Show In Duleep Trophy

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The under-pressure Shreyas Iyer‘s dismal run continued but strong performances from the other frontline batters, including Sanju Samson, guided India D to 306 for five on the opening day of their Duleep Trophy match against India B in Anantapur on Thursday. Iyer, aiming to make a comeback to India’s Test squad, fell for a second successive duck in the ongoing tournament. However, Devdutt Padikkal (50), Srikar Bharat (52), RickyBhui (56) and Samson (89 not out) smashed half-centuries as India D batters produced a solid show. At stumps, Samson and Saransh Jain (26) were at the crease. For India B, leg-spinner Rahul Chahar (3/60) was the standout bowler, claiming three wickets. Mukesh Kumar (1/37) and Navdeep Saini (1/51) picked up a wicket each after India B won the toss and elected to field first at the Rural Development Trust Stadium. Opening the innings, Padikkal and Bharat put together a solid 105-run partnership. However, Saini provided the breakthrough by removing Padikkal, followed by Mukesh dismissing Bharat, with both catches being taken by wicketkeeper Narayan Jagadeesan. …