# 2024–25 Duleep Trophy

The 2024–25 Duleep Trophy was the 61st edition of the Duleep Trophy, a domestic first-class cricket competition played in India. It took place from 5 September to 22 September 2024. The tournament was played by four teams, India A, B, C and D, unlike recent years which were played in zonal format. All squads were picked by national selectors. It formed part of the 2024 Indian domestic cricket season, announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in June 2024. South Zone were the defending champions.

## Squads

The squads for the first round for all the teams were announced by BCCI on 14 August 2024. The squads for the second round were announced on 10 September 2024.
| India A | India B | India C | India D |
| Captain ||||
| Shubman Gill° Mayank Agarwal$^%$ | Abhimanyu Easwaran | Ruturaj Gaikwad | Shreyas Iyer |
| Batters ||||
| Shashwat Rawat Pratham Singh* Shaik Rasheed* Tilak Varma | Yashasvi Jaiswal° Musheer Khan Sarfaraz Khan° Suyash Prabhudessai* Rinku Singh* Suryakumar Yadav ^ | B Indrajith Rajat Patidar Sai Sudharsan | Ricky Bhui Devdutt Padikkal Atharva Taide |
| Wicket-Keepers ||||
| Dhruv Jurel° Kumar Kushagra KL Rahul ° Akshay Wadkar* | N Jagadeesan Rishabh Pant° | Aryan Juyal Abishek Porel Ishan Kishan^ | KS Bharat Sanju Samson |
| All-Rounders ||||
| Shivam Dube Tanush Kotian Riyan Parag | Ravindra Jadeja Nitish Kumar Reddy Washington Sundar | Anshul Kamboj Manav Suthar Pulkit Narang | Saransh Jain Axar Patel° Akash Sengupta Nishant Sindhu |
| Bowlers ||||
| Khaleel Ahmed Akash Deep° Vidwath Kaverappa$^#$ Aaqib Khan* Avesh Khan Prasidh Krishna* Shams Mulani* Kuldeep Yadav° | Mohit Avasthi Rahul Chahar Yash Dayal° Sai Kishore Mukesh Kumar Himanshu Mantri* Navdeep Saini Mohammed Siraj | Himanshu Chauhan Umran Malik Mayank Markande Hrithik Shokeen Vijaykumar Vyshak Sandeep Warrier Gaurav Yadav | Tushar Deshpande Yash Dubey Vidwath Kaverappa$^#$ Saurabh Kumar Harshit Rana Arshdeep Singh Aditya Thakare |
*Not available in first round (ruled out due to injury/replaced the players with international duties)
°Only for first round.
$^%$Mayank Agarwal was named the captain of India A after Shubman Gill had to leave for international duties.
$^#$Vidwath Kaverappa was named in India A squad for the first round but later was transferred to India D for subsequent rounds.
^Ishan Kishan wasn't available for India D in first game due to injury, later got transferred to India C as injury replacement of Suryakumar Yadav who later got transferred to India B after regaining fitness in round three.

## Format

4 teams are competing: India A, India B, India C, India D
There will be a total of six matches in the competition with each team playing the other three sides once. The team which finishes with the maximum points will be crowned Duleep Trophy champions. There will be no knockout matches.

## Points table

| Team | MAT | W | L | D | T | NR | PTS | QUOT |
| India A | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1.351 |
| India C | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1.121 |
| India B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.753 |
| India D | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.870 |
| Source: bcci.tv Last updated: 22 September 2024 |||||||||
The points were awarded as follows:
* Innings win/win by 10 wickets: 7
* Match outright win: 6
* 1st innings lead but no outright win: 3
* Match drawn without 1st innings lead: 1
* Match lost: 0

## Fixtures
### First round

* 5–8 September 2024 Scorecard
* India B won by 76 Runs M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: Tapan Sharma and Swaroopanand Kannur Player of the match: Musheer Khan (India B)
* India A won the toss and elected to field.
* 5–8 September 2024 Scorecard
* India C won by 4 wickets Rural Development Trust Stadium "A", Anantapur Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan and Vinod Seshan Player of the match: Manav Suthar (India C)
* India C won the toss and elected to field.

### Second round

* 12–15 September 2024 Scorecard
* India A won by 187 runs Rural Development Trust Stadium "A", Anantapur Umpires: Pranav Joshi and Virender Sharma Player of the match: Shams Mulani (India A)
* India D won the toss and elected to field.
* 12–15 September 2024 Scorecard
* Match drawn, India C took first innings lead Rural Development Trust Stadium "B", Anantapur Umpires: Parashar Joshi and Saidharshan Kumar Player of the match: Anshul Kamboj (India C)
* India B won the toss and elected to field.

### Third round

* 19–22 September 2024 Scorecard
* India D won by 257 runs Rural Development Trust Stadium "B", Anantapur Umpires: Abhijeet Bengeri and Abhijit Bhattacharya Player of the match: Ricky Bhui (India D)
* India B won the toss and elected to field.
* 19–22 September 2024 Scorecard
* India A won by 132 runs Rural Development Trust Stadium "A", Anantapur Umpires: Vineet Kulkarni and Vaibhav Mohan Dhokre Player of the match: Shashwat Rawat (India A)
* India C won the toss and elected to field.

## Statistics

Highest Run Getters :
| Rank | Player | Team | INN | Runs | AVG | HS | 100s | 50s |
| 1 | Ricky Bhui | IND-D | 6 | 359 | 71.80 | 113 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Abhimanyu Easwaran | IND-B | 5 | 309 | 77.25 | 157* | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | Shashwat Rawat | IND-A | 4 | 256 | 85.33 | 124 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Ruturaj Gaikwad | IND-C | 6 | 232 | 38.20 | 62 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Devdutt Padikkal | IND-D | 6 | 202 | 33.66 | 92 | 0 | 3 |
Leading Wicket Takers :
| Rank | Player | Team | INN | Wickets | BBI | AVG | ECO | 4W | 5W |
| 1 | Anshul Kamboj | IND-C | 5 | 16 | 8/69 | 17.12 | 3.19 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Mukesh Kumar | IND-B | 6 | 15 | 4/98 | 28.60 | 4.00 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | Navdeep Saini | IND-B | 6 | 14 | 5/74 | 25.35 | 3.87 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | V. Vyshak | IND-C | 5 | 10 | 4/51 | 24.90 | 3.23 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Manav Suthar | IND-C | 5 | 10 | 7/49 | 30.70 | 3.33 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Akash Deep | IND-A | 2 | 9 | 5/56 | 12.88 | 2.82 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | Rahul Chahar | IND-B | 4 | 9 | 4/73 | 18.66 | 4.40 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Khaleel Ahmed | IND-A | 4 | 9 | 3/39 | 21.66 | 3.48 | 0 | 0 |
Source : ESPNCricInfo
Last Updated: 22 September 2024 (Round 3, Day 4 Lunch)