Vijay Hazare Trophy: Mumbai proclaims 17-member squad, Ajinkya Rahane to steer

Ajinkya Rahane will lead Mumbai for the Vijay Hazare Trophy’s league stage, beginning on November 12. The 17-member squad , with pacer Sylvester D’Souza incomes a maiden call-up, was introduced on Monday.

The choice committee headed by former India pacer Salil Ankola met on Monday, within the presence of head coach Amol Muzumdar and captain Rahane, who joined just about. Mumbai will play its Group E league stage in Ranchi from November 12.

D’Souza got here in for veteran pacer Dhawal Kulkarni, who has been dominated out for no less than two extra months after tearing a muscle in his left quadricep.

Prashant Solanki, the star of Mumbai’s triumphant Vijay Hazare Trophy marketing campaign in 2020-21, was excluded from the squad. Solanki stays out of favour after being omitted from the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy knockouts as effectively. Sportstar understands that following a lacklustre exhibiting within the T20 event’s league stage, the selectors and the group administration has requested the younger leg spinner to regain confidence within the Below-25 video games.

With Shreyas Iyer set to be unavailable together with Shardul Thakur, Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma on account of India’s worldwide commitments, younger batters Suved Parkar and Armaan Jaffer have been chosen for the one-day format.

Will probably be fascinating to see if Parkar, who made a classy 252 on First Class debut in the course of the Ranji Trophy quarterfinal, will get a chance in colored clothes. Tushar Deshpande will proceed to steer the tempo battery within the absence of Kulkarni.