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Tilak Verma has been made the captain of the South Zone in the Duleep Trophy 2025. He recently performed brilliantly in county cricket. The team consists of many players from Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The South Zone team will directly enter the semi -finals. The tournament will start from August 28.
Delhi: He has received a big reward for Indian young batsman Tilak Verma’s tremendous form in county cricket. 22 -year -old Tilak Verma has been given the captaincy of South Zone in the upcoming Dalip Trophy 2025. The tournament will be played at the BCCI Center of Excellence in Bengaluru from August 28.
Tilak recently played great innings for England’s county team Hampshire. He scored 100, 56, 47 and 112 runs in 4 innings. Under his captaincy, the team of South Zone will enter the semi -finals directly.
Four players from Kerala have received the best Ranji season. Mohammad Azharuddin has been made the vice -captain of the team while MD Nidhish, Salman Nizar and Badzil NP have also been included in the team.
Tamil Nadu batsman Narayan Jagdishan, left -arm spinner R Sai Kishore and middle order batsman Devdutt Padikkal are also part of the team. At the same time, Pesar Vaishak Vijaykumar of Karnataka will lead the fast bowling attack.
This time the Dalip Trophy will be played in the old zonal format in which there will be competition between six teams. Earlier, this tournament used to take place between India A, B, C, D teams. South Zone and West Zone have got entry in the semi -finals directly while the quarterfinals will be played between North Zone vs East Zone and Central Zone vs North East Zone.
South Zone Team,
Tilak Verma (Captain), Mohammad Azharuddin (Vice -captain), Tanmay Aggarwal, Devdutt Padikkal, Mohit Kale, Salman Nizar, Narayan Jagdishan, T Vijay (Andhra), R Sai Kishore, Tanay Tyagarajan, Vaishak Vijaykumar, MD Nidhish, Ricky Bhui, Badhil NP, Gurjaphet Singh, Snehal Kauthankar
Stand-by player,
Mohit Redkar, R. Samman, Ankit Sharma, Aidan Apple Tom, Andre Siddharth, Sheikh Rashid
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