Sandeep Sarkar, Kolkata: Stormed the international stage in limited-overs cricket at the age of just 15. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is now being given a platform to match his talent and skills in red ball cricket. Vaibhav has been placed in the East Zone team of the Duleep Trophy with great responsibility. The Bihar left-handed batsman has been made co-captain of the team. Vaibhav got the responsibility over Bengal’s Abhimanyu Ishwaran.

The East Zone team selection meeting was held at Eden Gardens on Wednesday afternoon. Dibyendu Chakraborty was among the selectors of Bengal in that meeting. Besides, Jharkhand selector Manish Vardhan, Odisha’s Prabhanjan Mallick, Tripura’s Alok Saha and Bihar’s Anant Prakash were present in the meeting. Assam selector Sumit Ranjan Das joined the meeting virtually. CAB Secretary Bablu Kole, Treasurer Sanjay Das. Later, CAB President Sourav Gangopadhyay spoke to the selectors.

A total of six cricketers from Bengal have been placed in the team. Mohammed Shami is in that team. past Ranji TrophyEven if he is successful, he has been kept in the national team. He was also not included in the Indian Test squad selected for the tour of Sri Lanka. But he wants to prove himself again in red ball cricket, said Shami in close circles. Mukesh Kumar, Shahbaz Amed are also in the team.

However, the fast bowler does not have the Aakash Deep. After investigation, it was found that he has an injury. Abhishek Podel was also not kept in the team. For Delhi Capitals IPLThe cricketer has recently been embroiled in controversy for off-field incidents. Multiple non-bailable cases are pending against him. It was heard that his name came up once in the meeting. But the Chandannagar cricketer could not perform as expected in the Ranji Trophy. So there was no place for Abhishek in the team.

Ishan Kishan was made the captain of the Eastern team. Co-captain Vaibhav. It was heard that in the meeting Abhimanyu Ishwaran was proposed to be co-captain by the selector of Bengal Dibyendu. But the selectors of the remaining five states want to give the responsibility to the younger Vaibhav. In the end it does. In the meeting it was decided that, Indian teamHe is not in the race to get a chance, no such cricketer will be kept. That’s why Sumant Gupta didn’t get a chance. Sudip Chattopadhyay’s name was mentioned but there was no place for Barasat’s left-hander.

Ratan Kumar, the senior team coach of Jharkhand, has been appointed as the coach of the team. It was once heard that Bengal coach Laxmiratan Shukla may be given the responsibility. But Lakshmi herself is not interested. Wriddhiman Saha’s words were also floating. However, Riddhi has not handled the responsibility of the senior team yet. So Ratan Kumar was given the responsibility. Duleep Trophy starts on August 23. The tournament will be held in Bangalore. East Zone’s first match is against North Zone.

Selected Eastern team

Ishan Kishan (captain/Jharkhand), Vaibhav Suryavanshi (co-captain/Bihar), Abhimanyu Ishwaran (Bangla), Sudeep Kumar Gharami (Bangla), Shahbaz Amed (Bangla), Sooraj Sindhu Jaiswal (Bangla), Mohammed Shami (Bangla), Mukesh Kumar (Bangla), Kumar Kushagra (Jharkhand), Shikhar Mohan (Jharkhand), Anakul Roy (Jharkhand), Virat Singh (Jharkhand), Shubhramshu Senapati (Odisha), Danish Das (Assam) and Abhijit Sarkar (Tripura).

Stand by

Ayush Loharuka (Bihar), Sridam Pal (Tripura), Sambit S Baral (Odisha), Sharandeep Singh (Jharkhand), Swastik Samal (Odisha)

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