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Published 22:53 IST, August 12th 2024

Here's How All The Four Teams Of Duleep Trophy Might Look Like If India's Top Stars Play

After the ODI series debacle in Sri Lanka, the Indian cricket team will take on Bangladesh next in a two-match Test series

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KL Rahul & Team India
KL Rahul & Team India | Image: BCCI

Duleep Trophy 2024: There is currently a lot of speculation regarding the upcoming edition of the Duleep Trophy. There are several reports that claim that the Board of Control for Cricket in India along with the selectors and Head Coach Gautam Gambhir want India's top players, their international stars to play the upcoming domestic tournament.

Though there is absolute silence from the players and the boards but it could be a grand spectacle if India's top stars end up playing the domestic competition. There have been talks about Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah's names too but as of now everything has been kept under the wraps as far as the tournament is concerned.

Here's How All The Four Teams Might Look Like If International Players Participate

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India A: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devdutt Padikkal, Cheteshwar Pujara, KL Rahul (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Axar Patel, Saransh Jain, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande and Navdeep Saini

India B: Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudarshan, Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Ricky Bhui, Ravindra Jadeja, KS Bharat (wk), Pulki Narang, Umran Malik, Avesh Khan, Yash Dayal

India C: Prithvi Shaw, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Rajat Patidar, Tilak Varma, Shreyas Iyer (c), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Saurabh Kumar, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Kaverappa, Prasidh Krishna

India D: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mayak Agarwal, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (c/wk), Riyan Parag, Washington Sundar, Manav Suthar, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh and Mukesh Kumar

Massive Year Ahead For The Indian Team

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India already has had a very successful 2024 so far. They beat the ruthless English side in a home Test series earlier this year and later followed it up with a historic T20 World Cup victory. They defeated Sri Lanka in a three-match T20I series, but could not replicate the same performance in the ODI series and ended up by losing it 2-0.

But there is still a lot of cricket left for the Indian team. They will play Bangladesh next in a two-match Test series which might very well be the preparation for the upcoming Border-Gavaskar trophy to be played in November this year. India are the defending champions of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and they will be eager to retain the title in Australia, once again.

Updated 22:53 IST, August 12th 2024