Faiz Fazal, Abhinav Mukund and Parthiv Patel have been named captains for the three-team Duleep Trophy 2018. They will be leading India Blue, India Red and India Green respectively in the four-dayers, which is set to begin on August 17.
DULEEP TROPHY
Parthiv, Fazal and Mukund to lead in Duleep Trophy
Parthiv will lead the India Green side. © BCCL
The triangular tournament will continue to be played in the day-night format, with the pink-ball experiment on. All the three league games and the final will be played at the NPR College Ground in Dindigul. India Red will face India Green in the tournament opener starting August 17, and will face India Blue in their next encounter on August 23. The last league game will be played from August 29, between India Green and India Blue. All the matches will start at 1:30 PM IST.
Quite surprisingly, the selectors named the suspended Punjab wicketkeeper-batsman Abhishek Gupta in the India Red squad initially, before naming Akshay Wadkar as the replacement*. The BCCI had earlier handed Gupta a provisional suspension for doping violation as a result of which he was considered ineligible to play until September 14, 2018. The tournament is scheduled to end on September 8, 2018.
With a quadrangular series set to be played alongside between India A, India B, South Africa A and Australia A, several top domestic players are set to miss the competition, apart from the Test players who will be
