The star player who was out of Team India for two and a half years became the captain, Shreyas became the vice-captain.
Mayank Agarwal
The Indian cricket team is currently busy playing the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on Australia tour. Team India is busy preparing for the third test match against Australia. The players of Team India who are not part of this series are continuously trying their hand in domestic cricket. There is one such player who has been out of Team India for almost 3 years but is playing continuously in domestic cricket. Now this player has suddenly been made the captain of the team. This player is Mayank Agarwal who has been out of Team India for a long time.
Mayank Agarwal played his last Test match for Team India in March 2022. Since then he has been trying to make a comeback in Team India. Meanwhile, Mayank Agarwal has been appointed the captain of his home team. Mayank Agarwal was appointed the captain of Karnataka on 12 December for the Vijay Hazare Trophy ODI cricket tournament to be held in Ahmedabad from 21 December to 5 January 2025. Shreyas Gopal has been made the vice-captain. Mayank could not perform anything special with the bat in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024-25. In 7 matches for Karnataka, he scored 179 runs which included only 1 half-century. During this period his average was 25.57 and strike rate was more than 150.
Team failed in Syed Mushtaq
Karnataka team led by Mayank Agarwal failed to make it to the knockouts of the ongoing Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Karnataka will start their campaign against Mumbai on December 21 at the Narendra Modi Stadium. Apart from Karnataka and Mumbai, Puducherry, Punjab, Arunachal Pradesh, Saurashtra, Hyderabad and Nagaland have been kept in Group C.
Karnataka’s squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy ODI cricket tournament is as follows: Mayank Agarwal (captain), Shreyas Gopal, S Nikin Jos, KV Aneesh, R Smaran, KL Srijit, Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Raj, Vishak Vijaykumar, Vasuki Kaushik, Vidyadhar Patil, Kishan Bedare, Abhilash Shetty, Manoj Bhandage, Praveen Dubey and Lavneeth. Sisodia.
(Inputs-PTI)
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