Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina and Gautam Gambhir to lead Duleep Trophy teams

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the schedule for the upcoming Duleep Trophy tournament on Thursday. Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, and Suresh Raina will captain the India Red, Blue and Green teams respectively.

This is going to be the first time the tournament be played with the pink ball and under lights. The Duleep Trophy 2016 will commence from August 23.

The Inda red team includes Gurkeerat Singh Mann who has been in and around the Indian team. Fast bowler Nathu Singh who impressed one and all with his pace is also a part of the team and so is Tamil Nadu leg-spinner Murugan Ashwin, who had featured in the Pune franchise in the 2016 IPL season.

Three players from the Indian Test side Shardul Thakur, Cheteshwar Pujara and Murali Vijay are included in the Blue and Green teams.

During the BCCI’s annual conclave in Dharamsala in June, the board president Anurag Thakur had said that the feedback of players from the tournament would be considered in planning about India’s prospects of hosting day-night Test matches.

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Schedule:

Match 1: India Red vs India Green from August 23-26, 2016

Match 2: India Red vs India Blue from August 29-September 1, 2016

Match 3: India Blue vs India Green, September 4-7, 2016

Final: September 10-14

India Red: Abhinav Mukund, KS Bharat, Sudip Chatterjee, Gurkeerat Singh, Yuvraj Singh (c), Ankush Bains, Arun Karthik, Akshay Wakhare, Kuldeep Yadav, Nathu Singh, Anureet Singh, Ishwar Pandey, Nitish Rana, M Ashwin, Abhimanyu Mithun

India Blue: Gautam Gambhir (c), Mayank Agarwal, Sheldon Jackson, Baba Aprajith, Siddhesh Lad, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Parvez Rasool, K Monish, Krishna Das, Suryakumar Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Pankaj Singh, Shardul Thakur, Cheteshwar Pujara, Hanuma Vihari

India Green: Robin Uthappa, Jalaj Saxena, Ambati Rayudu, Ian Dev Singh, Rohan Prem, Suresh Raina (c), Parthiv Patel (wk), Harbhajan Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Ashoke Dinda, Sandeep Sharma, Ankit Rajpoot, Rajat Paliwal, Jasprit Bumrah, Murali Vijay