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#3 Deodhar Trophy squads announced; Ashwin and Rahane to play

Ashwin and Rahane will play in the Deodhar Trophy

One of India's premier limited-overs tournament, the Deodhar Trophy, will begin in a few weeks from now. The tournament will feature three teams, namely India A, B, and C. Unlike the previous years, the Vijay Hazare Trophy champions will not take part in the tournament.

"It was decided during the technical committee meeting of BCCI that there will be three teams instead of one being Vijay Hazare champions," Saba Karim told PTI on Thursday.

The tournament will feature the likes of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ajinkya Rahane, who will play for India A and India C respectively.

Squads:

India A: Dinesh Karthik (c, wk), Prithvi Shaw, Anmolpreet Singh, A R Easwaran, Ankit Bawne, Nitish Rana, Karun Nair, Krunal Pandya, R Ashwin, Shreyas Gopal, S Mulani, Mohammed Siraj, Dhawal Kulkarni, Siddarth Kaul

India B: Shreyas Iyer (c), Mayank Agarwal, Rituraj Gaekwad, PS Chopra, Hanuma Vihari, Manoj Tiwary, Ankush Bains (wk), Rohit Rayudu, K Gowtham, Mayank Markande, S Nadeem, Deepak Chahar, Varun Aaron, Jaydev Unadkat

India C: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Abhinav Mukund, Shubman Gill, R Samarth, Suresh Raina, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan (wk), Vijay Shankar, Washington Sundar, Rahul Chahar, Pappu Roy, Navdeep Saini, R Gurbani, Umar Nazir