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Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament: India wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan has been named as skipper of the Jharkhand team for the first two matches of the upcoming Ranji Trophy season. Jharkhand will play their Elite Group D games against Assam in Guwahati, before travelling to Ahmedabad to face Railways.

Kishan had missed the 2023/24 Ranji Trophy season due to mental fatigue, after returning from the tour of South Africa and even lost his BCCI Central Contract. But he made a comeback to red-ball cricket via this year’s Duleep Trophy – making scores of 111, 1, 5 and 17 for India C – after missing the first round due to injury.

He recently made 38 for the Rest of India in the Irani Cup clash against Mumbai in Lucknow. Before this, Kishan, the left-handed batter, played for Jharkhand in this year’s Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament in Tamil Nadu, where he began the competition by hitting a century.