In an amazing step, the selectors of the South region have put themselves in trouble by going against the control board for cricket in India (BCCI). He has openly defined the BCCI policy openly to include centrally contracted players in his squad for the Dalip Trophy 2025.
KL Rahul, Mohammad Sirj, Washington Sundar, Sai Sudarshan, and fame Krishna, who were all parts of the England Test tour of India, have been ignored for the Dalip Trophy 2025, despite not being part of the Asia Cup 2025 squad.
The selectors from the South region take a bold stand against BCCI Diktat
The selectors from the South region have made it clear that they will not add KL Rahul, Mohammad Sirj, Washington Sundar, Sai Sudarshan, and Prasad Krishna to the Dalip Trophy 2025 squad, as they do not want to be unfair for domestic stars.
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BCCI had sent its instructions weeks ago, expected to follow all areas, but the South region has chosen a different route. Instead of following the BCCI instructions, they are glued with the designated squad in July, as the only center contracted player on the side with Tilak Verma.
Officials in the South region believe that Ranji Trophy artists deserve their opportunity to play in the Dalip Trophy, and if BCCI wants to see top stars in domestic cricket, they should make their participation in Ranji Trophy mandatory or India should use a match to test them.
Why did KL Rahul, Mohammad Siraj and other Indian stars not make it in the Duleep Trophy 2025 squad?
Cricbz said to an official from an South region, “Kerala qualified for the Ranji Trophy final (for the first time in the history of 90 versions of the competition) and lost by a very narrow margin. He had a magnificent season, and his players were eligible to be selected for the Dalip Trophy.
Meanwhile, the 15-member squad of South Zone has four from Kerala, three from Hyderabad, two from Andhra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and one each from Pondicherry and Goa.
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Prepare India stars for other Zone Duleep Trophy 2025
While other regions have followed the BCCI instructions, Central Zone drafts in Kuldeep Yadav, Eastern Zone named Mohammed Shami and Ishaan Kishan, West Zone named Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shreyas Iyer named West Zone, and North Zone chose Shubman Gill in its squads, but the south region challenged the board. However, Gill has been dropped from the tournament due to his illness.
As runners -up as the last version, the South region is already eligible for the Duleep Trophy 2025 semi -finals, starting from 4 September. Travel and housing schemes have been finalized, officials are not ready for U-turn. Laxmipati Balaji will be the head coach of the South region for the competition.
South Zone squad for Dalip Trophy 2025:
Tilak Verma (C), Mohammad Azaruddin (VC/WK), N Jagadisin (WK), Tanmay Aggarwal, Devdutt Padikkal, Mohit Kale, Salman Nizar, T Vijay, R Kishore, Tanya Thaiyarjan, Veek Vijkum, MDage, MDage, MDs, Gurjapneet Singh, Sneehal KATHANKAR