Irani Cup: Mayank Agarwal to lead Rest of India, Sarfaraz misses out due to injury
Sarfaraz Khan missed out on the selection owing to a hairline fracture on his left little finger. Baba Indrajith has been named as his replacement for the tournament.
Published : Feb 27, 2023 10:23 IST
FILE PHOTO: Mayank Agarwal celebrates his double century during the second day of the second semi-final of Ranji Trophy match between Karnataka and Saurashtra at Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on February 9, 2023.
Mayank Agarwal will lead the Rest of India (ROI) team against Madhya Pradesh in the Irani Cup, which will be starting from March 1st at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior.
Agarwal, who scored 990 runs in 13 innings, was the leading run-scorer in the recently-concluded Ranji Trophy.
In another development, Mumbai batsman Sarfaraz Khan was unavailable for selection owing to a hairline fracture on his left little finger.
The All-India Senior Selection Committee named Baba Indrajith as his replacement for the tournament.
“Sarfaraz Khan was unavailable for selection owing to a hairline fracture on his left little finger. The All-India Senior Selection Committee named Baba Indrajith as his replacement for the tournament,” the BCCI said in a statement.
The Irani Cup venue was shifted to Gwalior from Indore after the third India-Australia Test was designated to the Holkar Stadium.
Abhimanyu Easwaran, the Bengal opener, will partner Agarwal at the top. Abhimanyu, who was a member of the Test squad that travelled to Bangladesh in December, is also hoping to make a breakthrough. He had previously led India A on a shadow tour to Bangladesh when he scored two consecutive hundreds.
The other top-order batsmen on the Rest of India team include Yash Dhull, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Baba Indrajith and Sudip Kumar Gharami.
With 803 and 798 runs respectively, Gharami and Abhimanyu finished sixth and seventh in the Ranji top run scorers list as Bengal finished as runners-up.
RoI squad: Mayank Agarwal (Captain), Abhimanyu Easwaran, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Yash Dhull, Baba Indrajith, Upendra Yadav(wk), Atit Sheth, Saurabh Kumar, Harvik Desai, Navdeep Saini, Mukesh Kumar, Chetan Sakariya, Akash Deep, Mayank Markande, Pulkit Narang, Sudip Kumar Gharami