India Red face India Green in Duleep Trophy domestic season opener

Dindigul (Tamil Nadu), Aug 16 - Defending champions India Red will take on India Green in the opener of the 57th Duleep Trophy at the NPR College ground here on Friday, marking the start of the 2018-19 domestic cricket season

While the India Red side boasts of youngsters like Baba Aparajith, Ishan Porel, Abhimanyu Mithun and Rajneesh Gurbani, among others, the India Green squad has a few well-known names in Ashoke Dinda, Ankit Rajpoot, Baba Indrajith, Karn Sharma and Jalaj Saxena, among others.

The India Blue side will be spearheaded by Vidarbha captain Faiz Fazal and includes the discarded India pace duo of Dhawal Kulkarni and Jaydev Unadkat, along with youngsters in Basil Thampi, Swapnil Singh and Dhruv Shorey, among others.

Squads:

India Red: Abhinav Mukund (Captain) R.Sanjay, Ashutosh Singh, Baba Aparajith, Writtick Chatterjee, B.Sandeep, Akshay Wadkar(WK), Shahbaz Nadeem, Mihir Hirwani, Parvez Rasool, Rajneesh Gurbani, A Mithun, Ishan Porel, Y.Prithvi Raj.

India Green: Parthiv Patel (Captain & WK), Prashant Chopra, Priyank Panchal, Sudeep Chatterjee, Gurkeerat Mann, Baba Indrajith, V.P.Solanky, Jalaj Saxena, Karn Sharma, Vikas Mishra, K.Vignesh, Ankit Rajpoot, Ashoke Dinda, Atith Sheth.

India Blue: Faiz Fazal (Captain), Abhishek Raman, Anmolpreet Singh, Ganesh Satish, N.Gangta, Dhruv Shorey, K.S. Bharat (WK), Akshay Wakhare, Saurav Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Basil Thampi, B Ayappa, Jaydev Unadkat, Dhawal Kulkarni.

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IANS