Bengal re-induct Anustup Majumdar for Vijay Hazare Trophy 2017

Kolkata: Bengal has re-inducted 32-year-old Anustup Majumdar in the state squad for the upcoming Vijay Hazare Trophy cricket One-dayers in Chennai from February 25-March 6. Majumdar last played for Bengal in 2012-13 season before moving to Railways. The selection also marked return for Debabrata Das (hamstring) and Sudip Chatterjee (finger) after recovering from respective injuries in the 16-member squad, to be led by Manoj Tiwary. Delhi too had named their squad earlier on Thursday, which also included Ashish Nehra, who will play under young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant.

With an aim of making it to the Indian squad for the ICC Champions Trophy in England, Nehra is all set to play three matches for the Rishabh Pant-led Delhi in the Vijay Hazare National One Day tournament in Cuttack. The notable omission has been former India U-19 World Cup winning captain Unmukt Chand, who incidentally had led Delhi in a few Ranji Trophy matches this season. Unmukt’s inconsistency has been a talking point for past three seasons now and exclusion from Hazare Trophy can impact his IPL bid. As announced earlier, young wicketkeeper-batsman Pant will be leading the squad that also has former captains like Shikhar Dhawan and Gautam Gambhir.

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It will be after a couple of years that Nehra will be playing in the National One Day tournament having made an impressive comeback in the T20 version.

Squad:

Manoj Tiwary (c), Shreevats Goswami, Sudip Chatterjee, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Abhishek Raman, Debabrata Das, Anustup Majumdar, Pankaj Shaw, Writtick Chatterjee, Pragyan Ojha, Aamir Gani, Ashoke Dinda, Sayan Ghosh, Kanishk Seth, Ishan Porel, Mukesh Kumar. Standbys: Pramod Chandila, Veer Pratap Singh.