Duleep Trophy 2026

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NZ chose to bat

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Playing 11 

 

Central: Rajat Patidar (c), Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Kunal Chandela, Rinku Singh, Aryan Juyal, Saransh Jain, Harsh Dubey, Arshad Khan, Yash Thakur, Akash Pandey.

 

East: Ishan Kishan (c/wk), Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sudip Gharami, Kumar Kushagra, Virat Singh, MK Quraishi, Anukul Roy, Mukesh Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Abhijit Sarkar.

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Playing 11 

 

North: Sanat Sangwan, Qamran Iqbal, Ayush Doseja, Ayush Badoni, Kanhaiya Wadhawan (c/wk), Abdul Samad, Nishant Sindhu, Arshdeep Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Anshul Kamboj, Abid Mushtaq.

 

South: Ricky Bhui, Shaik Rasheed, Tilak Varma (c), R Smaran, N Jagadeesan (wk), K Himateja, Shreyas Gopal, Tanay Thyagarajan, K Saiteja, Vidwath Kaverappa, MD Nidheesh.

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The first round games in this year’s Duleep Trophy were dominated by the slower bowlers. Abid Mushtaq and Anukul Roy, though playing on different grounds, picked five wickets each in their games for North and East, respectively. There were instances of the ball turning square on the very first day. 

 

This is in stark contrast to the previous edition, also played at the CoE where four of the five games were decided on the first-innings lead. There seems to be a shift in approach with selectors wanting outright results, and the trend could continue in the second round as well.

[Manucrick]

jagadeesan is 30  bhui is 30   shreyas gopal is 32   nidheesh is 34  and karun nair is 34  south zone selectors are literally running a domestic retirement home instead of building an u 23 pipeline for test cricket

 

 

[tweaker]

12 minutes ago, Manucrick said:

building an u 23 pipeline for test cricket

Abhinav Tejrana should have been included in playing 11 

[express bowling]

42 minutes ago, Manucrick said:

jagadeesan is 30  bhui is 30   shreyas gopal is 32   nidheesh is 34  and karun nair is 34  south zone selectors are literally running a domestic retirement home instead of building an u 23 pipeline for test cricket

 

 

 

 

But did not choose Eden Apple Tom.

 

 

[Manucrick]

1 minute ago, express bowling said:

 

 

But did not choose Eden Apple Tom.

 

 

South zones selectors are the worst they select 34 old  nidheesh  zero vision 

[Lone Wolf]

Good god these Ranji batters can't even handle this rank Trundler Nidheesh.

 

Standards are in gutters

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3 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Good god these Ranji batters can't even handle this rank Trundler Nidheesh.

This is the reason they don't select Tyagi, Ashok, Mayank, in the squad,

[Suhaan]

6 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Good god these Ranji batters can't even handle this rank Trundler Nidheesh.

 

Standards are in gutters

This has always been the case remember guys Sid Kaul,Vinay Kumar,Undie all wrecked havocs in their time

[tweaker]

CZ 81/3

 

Patidar gone

 

Yash Rathod should score big 

[express bowling]

52 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Good god these Ranji batters can't even handle this rank Trundler Nidheesh.

 

Standards are in gutters

 

45 minutes ago, Suhaan said:

This has always been the case remember guys Sid Kaul,Vinay Kumar,Undie all wrecked havocs in their time

 

 

Abhijit Sarkar, short trundler from EZ bowling 119 kph to 127 kph, is the go to bowler for captain ahead of Shami and Mukesh.

 

Sarkar picked 5 + 1 = 6 wickets last game.  2 wickets so far.

 

How poor are our domestic batters  ?

 

 

Edited August 30 by express bowling

[Suhaan]

3 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

 

 

Abhijit Sarkar, short trundler from EZ bowling 118 kph to 127 kph, is the go to bowler for captain ahead of Shami and Mukesh.

 

Sarkar picked 5 + 1 = 6 wickets last game.  2 wickets so far.

 

How poor are our domestic batters  ?

 

 

Heavy whipping should be done and a dressing down should be given to the zonal selectors,this is a very serious issue

No point having these tournies

[express bowling]

24 minutes ago, Suhaan said:

Heavy whipping should be done and a dressing down should be given to the zonal selectors,this is a very serious issue

No point having these tournies

 

Commentators strongly criticizing their AT favourite Mukesh Kumar's accuracy, because they have found an even slower pacer to praise.  

 

In their minds, the slower the pacer the better bowler he is. 

 

 

 

 

[Manucrick]

36 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

 

 

Abhijit Sarkar, short trundler from EZ bowling 119 kph to 127 kph, is the go to bowler for captain ahead of Shami and Mukesh.

 

Sarkar picked 5 + 1 = 6 wickets last game.  2 wickets so far.

 

How poor are our domestic batters  ?

 

 

this is the main reason selectors are picking ipl batters for test cricket at least they face international bowlers because our domestic standard is way too low

[express bowling]

 

Commenrary box ceiling is becoming white and sticky when Abhijit Sarkar is bowling 120 k.    

 

 

[express bowling]

31 minutes ago, Manucrick said:

this is the main reason selectors are picking ipl batters for test cricket at least they face international bowlers because our domestic standard is way too low

 

 

That's true.

 

Tons of runs scored, against hordes of military medium pacers and darter spinners, carry little meaning in international cricket selection. 

 

 

[Suhaan]

19 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

 

 

Abhijit Sarkar, short trundler from EZ bowling 118 kph to 127 kph, is the go to bowler for captain ahead of Shami and Mukesh.

 

Sarkar picked 5 + 1 = 6 wickets last game.  2 wickets so far.

 

How poor are our domestic batters  ?

 

 

I don't know,I'm not watching this series at this point of time but have regularly seen these trundlers heavily benefitting from horizontal movement since quite long,they need to make sure there is bounce on offer more than lateral swing which brings these medium pacers into the picture 

[bouncers]

Just 2 off spinners - saransj jain and Tanush kotain and just 1 leg spinner

Rest all left arm spinner