Suresh Raina to captain India Blue in Duleep Trophy

India Green Squad: Murali Vijay, R Samarth, P Chopra, Shreyas Iyer, Karun Nair, Ankit Bawne, Parthiv Patel (captain), Shahbaz Nadeem, Parvez Rasool, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj, Sidharth Kaul, Mayank Dagar, Nitin Saini, Aniket Choudhary.

While, Indian opener Abhinav Mukund is set to captain India Red.

India Red Squad: Abhinav Mukund (captain), Priyank Panchal, Sudip Chatterjee, Ishank Jaggi, Ambati Rayudu, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Baba Indrajith, K Gowtham, Karna Sharma, Basil Thampi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ashok Dinda, Rahul Singh, CV Milind.

Parthiv will also have Indian batsman Murali Vijay at his disposal, who has been trying hard to recover from wrist injury.

India Blue Squad: Suresh Raina (captain), Samit Gohel, KS Bharat, AR Easwaran, Manoj Tiwary, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Ishan Kishan, Jayant Yadav, Bharghav Bhatt, KM Gandhi, Ishant Sharma, Ankit Rajpoot, S Kamat, Jaydev Unadkat.

Wicket-keeper batsman Parthiv Patel has been appointed to lead India Green.

Raina, who played his last ODI for India in 2015, will hope to make best of the opportunity in an attempt to comeback in the national side.

Kanpur and Lucknow will host Duleep Trophy and like previous year, it will be a pink ball affair.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced squad for India Blue, India Red and India Green. The tournament will feature 45 cricketers.

Sidelined left hand batsman Suresh Raina has been named as the captain of India Blue.

After initially failing to find its place in BCCI’s domestic calendar in 2017, Duleep Trophy is finally back.

The tournament will be held from September 07, and the final will be played on September 25.

Duleep Trophy has been an integral part of Indian cricket from past 56 years.