Dinesh Karthik, Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane to lead Deodhar Trophy teams

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the teams for this year's Deodhar Trophy, which is slated to commence on October 23.

While wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik has been named as the skipper for India A team, right-hand batsman Shreyas Iyer and vice captain Ajinkya Rahane will lead India B and India C teams, respectively.

The series will also feature spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and middle-order batsman Suresh Raina, while the likes of Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh could not manage to seal their positions in either of the squads of the tournament which is being conducted nearly seven months ahead of the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup 2019.

The following are the complete squads for the D.B. Deodhar Trophy, 2018:

India A: Dinesh Karthik (C & WK), Prithvi Shaw, Anmolpreet Singh, A R Easwaran, Ankit Bawne, Nitish Rana, Karun Nair, Krunal Pandya, R Ashwin, Shreyas Gopal, S Mulani, Mohammed Siraj, Dhawal Kulkarni, Siddarth Kaul

India B: Shreyas Iyer (C), Mayank Agarwal, Rituraj Gaekwad, PS Chopra, Hanuma Vihari, Manoj Tiwary, Ankush Bains (WK), Rohit Rayudu, K Gowtham, Mayank Markande, S Nadeem, Deepak Chahar, Varun Aaron, Jaydev Unadkat

India C: Ajinkya Rahane (C), Abhinav Mukund, Shubman Gill, R Samarth, Suresh Raina, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan (WK), Vijay Shankar, Washington Sundar, Rahul Chahar, Pappu Roy, Navdeep Saini, R Gurbani, Umar Nazir.