Veteran Indian batter Cheteshwar Pujara turned the primary casualty of the BCCI’s potential transition plan so far as the Test staff is anxious, following the World Test Championship (WTC) closing debacle. Pujara, regardless of his two consecutive profitable County stints, flattered to deceive on the highest degree as he was on the receiving finish for poor shot-making and lack of footwork towards the transferring ball towards Australia on the Oval. Consequently, he was dropped from the Test squad for the West Indies collection.
Similarly, the No. 1 T20I batter on the earth, Suryakumar Yadav additionally confronted the axe after being half of the Test squad for the Border-Gavaskar collection and the WTC closing, as a standby. Now each Surya and Pujara have been added to the West Zone squad for Duleep Trophy as two opening batters Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad have been referred to as up to the primary squad for West Indies Tests subsequent month.
Jaiswal, who’s coming off a sensational season each in home cricket in addition to within the IPL, is having fun with his time within the solar and is probably going to be given the No. 3 spot whereas Gaikwad performed an enormous half in Chennai Super Kings’ fifth title win, scoring 590 runs in IPL 2023.
Pujara, who opened for India within the rescheduled Test towards England at Edgbaston final 12 months within the absence of skipper Rohit Sharma, is probably going to companion Priyank Panchal on the high for West Zone. Duleep Trophy is ready to start on June 28 with the summit conflict to take place on July 12 in Bangalore.
West Zone squad: Priyank Panchal (Captain), Cheteshwar Pujara, Suryakumar Yadav, Harvik Desai (wicketkeeper), Prithvi Shaw, Het Patel (wicketkeeper), Sarfaraz Khan, Arpit Vasavada, Atit Seth, Shams Mulani, Yuvraj Dodiya, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Chintan Gaja, Arzan Nagwaswalla.
