India’s new home cricket season is ready to start on June 28 with multi-day Dulee Trophy match. The selectors of various zones have already introduced respective squads. Meanwhile, North Zone side suffered a significant blow as their captain Mandeep Singh has been dominated out of the match because of the damage. Punjab Cricket Association knowledgeable selectors on Thursday (June 22) morning concerning the damage.
Nehal Wadhera who was spectacular with the bat for Mumbai Indians in IPL 2023 has been named Mandeep’s alternative in the squad whereas Jayant Yadav has been appointed the captain of the North Zone side.
“We received intimation this morning from the Punjab Cricket Association that Mandeep Singh had gotten injured and can be unavailable for the Duleep Trophy. Pursuant thereto a video-convention was organised this night with all of the selectors of the North Zone Selection Committee and the identical was chaired by Chetan Sharma.
“Selectors discussed the issue and unanimously decided that Nehal Wadhera would be the replacement for Mandeep Singh. Since Mandeep Singh was the Captain of the side, the Committee also picked Jayant Yadav to lead the North Zone team in the Duleep trophy,” convenor of zonal committee Anirudh Chaudhry stated on Thursday.
North Zone is scheduled to fulfill North East Zone in the quarter-remaining on the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru from June 28 to July 1.
North Zone Updated Squad:Â Jayant Yadav (captain), Prashant Chopra, Dhruv Shorey, Manan Vohra, Prabhsimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Ankit Kumar, AS Kalsi, Harshit Rana, Abid Mushtaq, Nehal Wadhera, Pulkit Narang, Nishant Sandhu, Sidharth Kaul, Vaibhav Arora, Baltej Singh.
