Shreyas Iyer (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary) India Odi Batter Shreyas Iyer rejected the offer to Captain West Zone in the Duleep Trophy, after which the national selectors transferred responsibility to their teammate in Mumbai and India, the versatile Shardul Thakur, Toi learned. However, Iyer made available for the tournament and played again on the zonal basis as a player. “Yes, it is true that Iyer rejected the offer of the selection committee for the western zone of the team captain. After that, the chairman of the committee, Sanjay Patil, who is also the main selector in Mumbai, turned to Thakur to lead the western zone, which is Thakur,” the source said.
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Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe! The news suggests that Iyer was expecting a call for the Asian Cup and began to train a white ball with his personal trainer Pravin Amor in the Indoor MCA facility in the Bandra-Kurla complex and the India cricket club. As the Asia Cup starts on September 9 in the UAE and West Zone champions are inoculated to play directly in the Duleep Trophy semifinals from 4 to 7 September in the Center of Excellence (CEE) in Bengalur, Iyer would not be unavailable to the tournament. However, the thirty -year -old bomber dough was controversially excluded from the Indian 15 -member Asia Cup Squad and was not named among the reserves when the National Selectors announced a group at the BCCI headquarters last Monday. Meanwhile, the newly appointed captain of West Zone Thakur is inclined to lead the Trophy Mumbai Ranji team in the 2025-26 season after the veteran the dough on Thursday resigned on Thursday. Thakur, who recently recovered from the ankle surgery, was a key player in Mumbai’s Red-ball settings and took 35 goals in nine ranji Trophy matches, along with scoring 505 runs, including one century and the four fifties. His versatile performance brought him withdrawal to the Indian test team on the England Tour, where he raised two goals in two tests and scored 108 runs. The selectors of the western zone decided not to include veterans Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara, signaling the end of their comeback hopes in cricket with a red ball, announcing a 15 -member group 1. Duleep Trophy will begin on August 28. The new head coach Mumbai under 19 Kiran PoWar will serve as the head coach of the West Zone team for the tournament, which also means the beginning of the home season 2025-26.
