Mohammed Shami Named In Bengal T20 Squad For Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

India pacer Mohammed Shami, who me a splendid return to competitive cricket with Ranji Trophy, was on Monday named in Bengal's squ for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy beginning on Saturday.

As reported by PTI earlier, Shami’s inclusion in Bengal T20 squ is part of a fitness assessment ahe of a potential return to India's team for latter half of Border-Gavaskar Trophy five-Test series beginning in Perth on Friday.

Playing his first competitive match after a year, 34-year-old, who underwent a surgery for Achilles tendon injury on his left leg, claimed a match haul of seven wickets and also excelled with bat against Mhya Presh to help Bengal secure ir first win of season.

BCCI medical team and national selectors want Shami to play a few more competitive games in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy to check if his body is holding up after multiple games even if it's a white ball format tournament, as per sources.

Talented batsman Sudip Kumar Gharami was named Bengal captain. Bengal will begin ir campaign against Punjab in ir Group A match in Rajkot.

Hyderab, Meghalaya, Mhya Presh, Mizoram, Bihar, Rajasthan, Punjab are or teams in Group A. final is slated in Bengaluru on December 15.

Squ: Sudip Kumar Gharami (C), Abishek Porel (wk), Sudip Chatterjee, Shahbaz Ahmed, Karan Lal, Writtick Chatterjee, Ritwick Roy Chowdhury, Shakir Habib Gandhi (wk), Ranjot Singh Khaira, Prayas Ray Barman, Agniv Pan (wk), Pripta Pramanik, Saksham Chaudhary, Mohammed Shami, Ishan Porel, Mohammed Kaif, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Sayan Ghosh, Kanishk Seth and Soummyip Mandal.