Duleep Trophy 2025: Ishan Kishan to lead East Zone, Vaibhav Suryavanshi in standby

Jharkhand wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan will lead the East Zone team in the Duleep Trophy to be held in Bengaluru from August 28.

The star-studded team includes pacers Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep and Mukesh Kumar, apart from prominent batters such as Abhimanyu Easwaran and Riyan Parag. Teenage sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi is among the standbys.

East Zone will take on North Zone in its first match, to be held from August 28 to 31.

Squad

Ishan Kishan (capt., wk), Abhimanyu Easwaran (vice-capt.), Sandeep Patnaik, Virat Singh, Denish Das, Sridam Paul, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Kushagra (wk), Riyan Parag, Utkarsh Singh, Manishi, Suraj Jaiswal, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep and Mohammed Shami; Standbys: Mukhtar Hussain, Aasirwad Swain, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Swastik Samal, Sudip Kumar Gharami and Rahul Singh.