Duleep Trophy 2024: Schedule, Format, Venues, Squads, Broadcast

The Duleep Trophy 2024 marks the beginning of India’s domestic cricket season 2024-25. The prestigious First-Class tournament will kick off on September 5, 2024, with Bengaluru and Anantapur hosting the matches.

This is the 61st edition of the Duleep Trophy, which will see a new format in action, moving from the zonal format. There will be a total of 6 First-Class games split into 3 rounds.

Some of the capped Indian Test players will also be in action, along with the best red-ball players from the country.

Duleep Trophy 2024: Format

The BCCI has introduced a new format, with 4 teams competing against each other once. 

Previously, 6 zonal teams participated in the Duleep Trophy. But this edition, 4 teams selected by national selectors will partake in the Duleep Trophy.

The 4 teams are India A, India B, India C, and India D. All teams will play in a single round-robin format in 4-day matches, with the points table topper adjudged as the winner.

Duleep Trophy 2024: Points System

Here’s the points system for the Duleep Trophy 2024 edition:

7 points: For winning a match by an innings or 10 wickets.

6 points: For winning a match outright.

3 points: For taking the first innings lead, but no outright win.

1 point: For losing the match after taking the first innings lead. 

Duleep Trophy 2024: Venues

Bengaluru’s M. Chinnaswamy Stadium will host 1 match, while Anantapur’s Rural Development Trust Stadium A will host 3 matches and Stadium B will host 2 matches.

Duleep Trophy 2024: Schedule

Date	Match	Venue	Time (IST)
Sep 5-8	India A vs India B	Bengaluru	9:30 AM
Sep 5-8	India C vs India D	Anantapur (Stadium A)	9:30 AM
Sep 12-15	India A vs India D	Anantapur (Stadium A)	9:30 AM
Sep 12-15	India B vs India C	Anantapur (Stadium B)	9:30 AM
Sep 19-22	India B vs India D	Anantapur (Stadium B)	9:30 AM
Sep 19-22	India A vs India C	Anantapur (Stadium A)	9:30 AM

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Duleep Trophy 2024: Squads

Team A: Shubman Gill (c), KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Riyan Parag, Tilak Varma, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Vidwath Kaverappa, Kumar Kushagra, Shaswat Rawat.

Team B: Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (wk), N Jagadeesan (wk), Musheer Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Yash Dayal, Mukesh Kumar, Rahul Chahar, R Sai Kishore, Mohit Awasthi.

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

Team D: Shreyas Iyer (c), Atharva Taide, Yash Dubey, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (wk), Ricky Bhui, Saransh Jain, Axar Patel, KS Bharat (wk), Arshdeep Singh, Aditya Thakare, Harshit Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Sengupta, Saurabh Kumar.

Duleep Trophy 2024: Where to watch live

Cricket fans can catch all the live action of the Duleep Trophy 2024 on Sports18 Network’s TV channel. The matches will also be available for live streaming on the JioCinema app and website.