Mukund, Parthiv and Raina to lead Duleep Trophy teams

Abhinav Mukund, Parthiv Patel and Suresh Raina will lead the India Red, Green and Blue teams respectively in the upcoming Duleep Trophy, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed on Wednesday.

The tournament, to be held from September 7 to 29, will be played with the pink ball like last year in Lucknow and Kanpur.

The league stage will be played in a round-robin format with each game lasting four days while the final will be a five-day match starting from September 25.

The squads for the three teams are as follows:

India Red: Abhinav Mukund (Captain), Priyank Panchal, Sudip Chatterjee, SIahank Jaggi, Ambati Rayadu, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Baba Indrajith, K Gowtham, Karn Sharma, Basil Thampi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ashok Dinda, Rahul Singh and CV Milind.

India Green: Murali Vijay, R Samparth, P Chopra, Shreyas Iyar, Karun Nair, Ankit Bhwane, Pathiv Patel (Captain), Shahbaz Nadeem, Parvez Rasool, Navdeep Saini, Mohammad Siraj, Sidharth Kaul, Mayank Dagar, Nitin Saini and Aniket Choudhary.

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