Sports:  India's T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav's hopes of making a comeback into the Test team have suffered a major setback as the flamboyant batter has been reportedly ruled out of the first round of the upcoming Duleep Trophy.

Suryakumar injured his hand while fielding for Mumbai against Tamil Nadu during the recently concluded Buchi Babu Tournament and is likely to miss the first round of the marquee red-ball tournament as reported by the Press Trust of India (PTI).

Suryakumar is a part of Team C which will be led by Ruturaj Gaikwad. Team C have already lost the services of their speedster Umran Malik due to illness and Suryakumar's absence will hurt their chances even more.

Duleep Trophy squads:

Team A: 

Shubman Gill (C), Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, KL Rahul, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Khaleel Ahemad, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.

Team B: 

Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd Siraj, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi, N Jagadeesan (WK).

Team C: 

Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar, Abishek Porel (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, B Indrajith, Hrithik Shokeen, Manav Suthar, Umran Malik, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Anshul Khamboj, Himanshu Chauhan, Mayank Markande, Aryan Juyal (WK), Sandeep Warrier.

Team D: 

Shreyas lyer (C), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Ishan Kishan (WK), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, KS Bharat (WK), Saurabh Kumar.

Duleep Trophy 2024 Schedule