 "Rinku Singh in a file photo. PTI")
Rinku Singh is expected to join the India B squad for the second round of fixtures in the Duleep Trophy. It will take place as all of the Test players picked for the Bangladesh series , except for Sarfaraz Khan, are likely to be withdrawn from the second string of matches beginning on September 12 in Anantpur.
Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, Kuldeep Yadav and Akash Deep are set to exit the India A team and be replaced by Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, Shaik Rasheed, Shams Mulani and Pulkit Narang. Seamer Vidhwath Kaverappa is likely to move from India A to India D for the second round.
India B could lose Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant and Yash Dayal and their spots will be taken by Suyash Prabhudesai, Himanshu Mantri and Rinku, whose omission from the first match, was a bit of a surprise.
Sarfaraz, who has been named in India’s squad for the first Test against Bangladesh , will stay with India B for the second round of Duleep Trophy matches that are scheduled to end on September 15, three days before the Chennai Test.
India C are unaffected by the changes, but India D are set to lose Axar Patel and injured Tushar Deshpande. Kaverappa and Nishant Sindhu will join their squad.
The Indian cricket team are due to assemble in Chennai on September 12 for a preparatory camp.
In the first round of Duleep Trophy fixtures, India B beat India A with Musheer Khan playing a starring role , and India C beat India D with 22-year-old Manav Suthar taking seven wickets.
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More ShortsLikely Duleep Trophy squads for second round:
India A: Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat, Pratham Singh, Akshay Wadkar, Shaik Rasheed, Shams Mulani, Pulkit Narang
India B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (capt), Sarfaraz Khan, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (wk), Rinku Singh, Suyash Prabhudesai, Himanshu Mantri
India C: Ruturaj Gaikwad (capt), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (wk), B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Gaurav Yadav, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (wk), Sandeep Warrier
India D: Shreyas Iyer (capt), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (wk), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (wk), Saurabh Kumar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Nishant Sindhu