Published: Mar 22, 2017, 06:44 PM (IST)
Edited: Mar 22, 2017, 06:44 PM (IST)
Chennai: All-rounder Vijay Shankar will lead a 15-member Tamil Nadu team for the Deodhar Trophy cricket tournament to be held at Visakhapatnam from March 25. The squad, announced on Wednesday, will be without batsman Baba Aparajith and paceman Aswin Crist, who will be representing India in the ACC Emerging Teams Cup in Bangladesh. Batsman L Suryapprakash and paceman J Kousik have been picked to replace the duo. Also, the TNCA Selection Committee has chosen to trim the 16-man squad which won the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Monday by dropping India under-19 player S Radhakrishnan. Rohit to lead India Blue in Deodhar Trophy; Dhoni omitted
Meanwhile, left-arm paceman T Natarajan, who was picked by Kings XI Punjab in last month’s IPL auction, and young medium-pacer K Vignesh, who missed the victorious Vijay Hazare Trophy campaign owing to injury, were not included. Deodhar Trophy featuring India ‘Red’ and India ‘Blue’ will be played on a round-robin basis with the final slated for March 29. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday announced the squads for India Blue and India Red to take on the winners of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2016-17, Tamil Nadu, in the upcoming DB Deodhar Trophy.
The triangular series will be played from March 25-29 on Visakhapatnam. Rohit Sharma, who has not played an international game since the ODI series against New Zealand in 2016, will lead India Blue whereas Parthiv Patel has been announced captain of India Red.
TN Team: Vijay Shankar (c), K Dinesh Karthik, V Ganga Sridhar Raju, B Indrajith, L Suryapprakash, M Kaushik Gandhi, N Jagadeesan, J Kousik, M Mohammed, W Anthony Dhas, R Rohit, Rahil S Shah, M Ashwin, R Sai Kishore, M S Washington Sundar.
