The Duleep Trophy 2024 will start on September 5 and run till September 22.
Organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the Duleep Trophy 2024 will be held in a revamped structure as the board decided to discontinue the zonal format.
India A, India B, India C and India D are the four teams that will compete in the upcoming Duleep Trophy.
As per the Duleep Trophy 2024 schedule, each team will play the other sides once in a round-robin format with no knockout games schedule. The team finishing at the top of standings after all the six matches will clinch the Duleep Trophy 2024 title.
The first round matches of the Duleep Trophy 2024 will be played in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh and M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.
Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, KL Rahul, Shreyas lyer, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj and Arshdeep Singh are some of the international stars that will feature in the Duleep Trophy 2024.
However, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravichandran Ashwin have not been selected in any of the squads.
Meanwhile, Shubman Gill, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Shreyas lyer are the four captains for Duleep Trophy.
Named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji of Nawanagar (also known as Duleep), the first edition of Duleep Trophy was played during the 1961-62 season. West Zone won the inaugural edition of the tournament after defeating South Zone by 10 wickets in the final.
The zonal teams were replaced by five new teams - Elite A, Elite B, Elite C, Plate A and Plate B during the 2002-03 season. However, this format was used for only one season.
Later from the 2003-04 season till 2008, the Duleep Trophy featured five zonal teams and another guest team from a foreign nation.
This domestic cricket competition was not held during the 2015-16 season, but later made a comeback with a new format in 2016-17.
India Blue, India Green and India Red were the three teams that competed for the Duleep Trophy for next three years till the 2019-20 season.
In the 2022-23 season, the BCCI once again introduced the zonal format with the addition of a new team - North East Zone, apart from the original five zones.
South Zone are the defending champions of the Duleep Trophy, having defeated West Zone by 75 runs in the 2023 final.
Meanwhile, West Zone are the most successful team in Duleep Trophy history with 19 titles.
Where to watch Duleep Trophy 2024 live
The Duleep Trophy 2024 will be telecast live on Sports18 Network’s TV channels.
Live streaming of Duleep Trophy 2024 will be available on the JioCinema app and website.
Duleep Trophy 2024 teams and squads
Team A: Shubman Gill (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (wicket-keeper), KL Rahul (wicket-keeper), 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 (wicket-keeper), Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy (subject to fitness), Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd Siraj, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (wicket-keeper)
Team C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (wicket-keeper), Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Umran Malik, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (wicket-keeper), Sandeep Warrier
Team D: Shreyas lyer (captain), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (wicket-keeper), Saurabh Kumar
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