India batter Rajat Patidar, who captained Royal Challengers Bengaluru to IPL 2025 trophy, has been named the vice-captain. But his availability is subject to fitness clearance by the BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE). It is to be noted that Patidar had been dealing with a finger injury sustained during fielding in IPL 2025.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Jurel, meanwhile, was recently a part of India\u2019s 2-2 drawn Test series against England, and played the last Test at The Oval, which the visitors\u2019 won by six runs. Jurel had also been the substitute keeper for India when Rishabh Pant couldn\u2019t take up keeping duties due to finger injury and later foot fracture at Lord\u2019s and Manchester respectively.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Khaleel, on the other hand, is coming off a county stint with Essex, which was cut short to just two County Championship appearances due to personal reasons. Kuldeep, meanwhile, didn\u2019t get a game to play in the Test tour of England, while Chahar was seen bowling at Indian team\u2019s practice sessions ahead of the third game at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Ranji Trophy defending champions Vidarbha have sizeable representation in Danish Malewar, Aditya Thakare, Yash Rathod and Harsh Dubey, who was in India \u2018A\u2019 team for the matches against England Lions. Usman Ghani, the Vidarbha head coach in their recent Ranji Trophy triumph, will be the Central Zone team\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The Duleep Trophy will be held in the old zonal format of six teams and marks the beginning of 2025\/26 domestic cricket season. Central Zone will begin their campaign with a quarter-final clash against North East Zone at the BCCI Centre of Excellence Ground, with the game\u2019s winner set to meet Shardul Thakur-led West Zone in the semi-final.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Ranji Trophy defending champions Vidarbha have sizeable representation in Danish Malewar, Aditya Thakare, Yash Rathod and Harsh Dubey, who was in India \u2018A\u2019 team for the matches against England Lions. Usman Ghani, the Vidarbha head coach in their recent Ranji Trophy triumph, will be the Central Zone team\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Stand-bys: Madhav Kaushik, Yash Thakur, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mahipal Lomror, Kuldeep Sen, and Upendra Yadav.<\/p>\r\n\r\n