Duleep Trophy: Siraj, Umran Malik to miss first round of competition

NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (

BCCI

) Men's Selection Committee named substitutes on Tuesday for pacers

Mohammed Siraj

and

Umran Malik

, who would be absent from the

Duleep Trophy

opening round owing to sickness.
Additionally, Team B has released great all-around player

Ravindra Jadeja

, as per ANI.
Top Indian players from the international circuit as well as up-and-coming talent will compete at the highest level in the Duleep Trophy, which launches

red-ball cricket

in the domestic season.

September 5, 2024, is the scheduled start date of the event in M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru and Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh.
In the Team B and C teams, respectively,

Navdeep Saini

and Gaurav Yadav will take the place of the Pacers.

"The Men's Selection Committee announced a couple of replacements in the squads for the first round of the 2024-25 Duleep Trophy. Pacer Navdeep Saini will replace Mohd. Siraj in the Team B squad while Gaurav Yadav will replace Umran Malik in the Team C squad. Both Siraj and Malik are suffering from an illness and are not expected to be fit in time for their Duleep Trophy fixtures," said the statement from BCCI.
"All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has also been released from the Team B squad," the statement added.

In the Duleep Trophy 2024-25 season, prominent Indian batters Rishabh Pant, Ishan Kishan, Shubman Gill, and numerous other players are expected to compete.
Revised squads:
India A: Shubman Gill (C), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (WK), KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube,

Tanush Kotian

, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C),

Yashasvi Jaiswal

, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK)
India C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (WK), Sandeep Warrier
India D: Shreyas lyer (C), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (WK), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana,

Tushar Deshpande

, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (WK), Saurabh Kumar
Note: Nitish Kumar Reddy's participation in the Duleep Trophy is subject to fitness.