India quick bowler Mohammed Shami has been named within the East Zone squad for the 2025–26 Duleep Trophy. Ishan Kishan, who just lately scored two half-centuries for Nottinghamshire within the ongoing County Championship Division One, has been appointed captain of the 15-member squad, with Abhimanyu Easwaran, a member of India’s Check squad in England, named as vice-captain.
The squad additionally consists of Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, and Riyan Parag. Notably, 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who smashed the quickest century in Youth ODIs throughout India Below-19’s tour of England final month, has been named among the many six standbys.
Shami final featured in aggressive cricket throughout IPL 2025, the place he picked up six wickets in 9 matches for Sunrisers Hyderabad. His final first-class look got here in November 2024 for Bengal within the Ranji Trophy. In the meantime, there was no place within the squad for Sudip Chatterjee, Bengal’s prime run-scorer from the earlier Ranji season, whereas Sudip Kumar Gharami, the second-highest run-getter, has been named within the standby listing.
Jharkhand’s main scorers from final season, Virat Singh and Sharandeep Singh, have been included, together with left-arm spinner Manishi, who took 22 wickets in seven matches.
The Duleep Trophy shall be performed in a zonal format, with zonal selectors, reasonably than nationwide selectors, selecting the squads. The East Zone staff was chosen by Alokendu Lahiri (Bengal), Abakash Khatua (Odisha), Sunil Kumar Singh (Bihar), Manish Wardhan (Jharkhand), Sumit Ranjah Das (Assam), and Upananda Debbarma (Tripura), with Jharkhand State Cricket Affiliation secretary Saurabh Tiwary convening the assembly.
The match will start with East Zone going through North Zone within the opening match from August 28 on the Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
East Zone squad
Ishan Kishan (capt), Abhimanyu Easwaran (vc), Sandeep Patnaik, Virat Singh, Denish Das, Sridam Paul, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Kushagra, Riyan Parag, Utkarsh Singh, Manishi, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, Mohammed Shami
Standbys: Mukhtar Hussain, Aasirwad Swain, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Swastik Samal, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Rahul Singh