The 2017–18 Duleep Trophy was the 56th season of the

Duleep Trophy The Duleep Trophy, also known as Mastercard Duleep trophy due to sponsorship reasons, is a domestic first-class cricket competition played in India. Named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji of Nawanagar (also known as 'Duleep'), the competition wa ...

, a first-class cricket tournament in India. It took place between 7 and 29 September 2017, with all of the matches being played as day/night fixtures. India Blue were the defending champions. Initially, the

Board of Control for Cricket in India The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body for cricket in India. Its headquarters are situated at Cricket centre, Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The BCCI is the richest governing body of cricket in the world ...

(BCCI) had cancelled the tournament because of fixture congestion in both India's domestic and international calendar, but it was restored shortly after the original announcement. India Red qualified for the final, after winning their first game and drawing the second. The final round-robin match between India Blue and India Green ended in a draw, after three of the four days were washed out with no play possible. India Blue progressed to the final, as a result of their earlier drawn game against India Red. India Red won the tournament by beating India Blue by 163 runs in the final.

Squads

Abhinav Mukund was unavailable because of dengue fever. Akhil Herwadkar replaced him on the India Red squad.

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was unavailable for the tournament because of knee injury. Prithvi Shaw replaced him in India Red's squad.

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, who was initially named in India Green, was picked by India Red as an injury replacement.

Krishnappa Gowtham Krishnappa Gowtham (born 20 October 1988) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Karnataka cricket team, Karnataka. He made his international debut for India national cricket team, India in July 2021. His father M. Krishnappa represented Karnatak ...

was left out of the squad.

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, Sudip Chatterjee,

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and

Karn Sharma Karn Vinod Sharma (born 23 October 1987) is an Indian cricketer. He lives in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. He plays as an all-rounder for the Railways cricket team. He is a left-hand batsman and leg break bowler. He made his Twenty20 International de ...

were released from India Red's squad for the India A series. Suryakumar Yadav and

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were added to the India Red squad. Vijay Shankar and

Jayant Yadav Jayant Yadav (born 22 January 1990) is an Indian cricketer from Delhi who plays for Haryana in domestic cricket. He is an all-rounder who bats right-handed, and bowls right-arm off-break. He made his international debut in October 2016. Domest ...

were unavailable due to injuries.

Akshay Wakhare Akshay Anil Wakhare (born 3 October 1985) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Vidarbha in domestic cricket. He is a right-arm off break bowler who has represented Central Zone. Wakhare made his first-class debut in November 2006. He came into ...

and Pankaj Rao were named as replacements.

Ankit Rajpoot Ankit Singh Rajpoot (born 4 December 1993 in Lodhi Rajput Family) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler who made his debut during the 2012-13 Ranji Trophy. He picked 31 wick ...

was released from the India Blue squad for the India A series and Pankaj Singh was added to India Blue's squad. Sagun Kamat was released from the India Blue squad ahead of finals.

Shreyas Iyer Shreyas Santosh Iyer (born 6 December 1994) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team as a Right-handed batter. He has played in all formats for the Indian team. Iyer has scored a century in his debut test matc ...

was unavailable due to injury.

Varun Aaron Varun Raymond Aaron (born 29 October 1989) is an Indian cricketer from Jamshedpur. A right-arm fast bowler, he first played for Jharkhand U-19 followed by Jharkhand Ranji team. He played his first One Day International (ODI) for India in Octo ...

was added to India Green's squad as cover. Kaushik Gandhi who was initially named in India Blue's squad was added to India Green's squad.

Karun Nair Karun Kaladharan Nair (born 6 December 1991) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for Karnataka in domestic cricket and Rajasthan Royals in Indian Premier League. He is a right-handed top order batter and occasional off break bowle ...

, Ravikumar Samarth, Ankit Bawne,

Shahbaz Nadeem Shahbaz Nadeem (born 12 August 1989) is an Indian international cricketer who is a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He made his first-class cricket debut in December 2004. He has played for Bihar Under-14 side and Indian U-19s and currently plays ...

Navdeep Saini Navdeep Amarjeet Saini (born 23 November 1992) is an Indian cricketer. He has played for Delhi since 2013. He made his international debut for the India cricket team in August 2019. Early life Navdeep Saini was born on 23 November 1992 in Karnal ...

and

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were released from India Green's squad for the India A series and Manpreet Juneja, Shivam Chaudhary, Amandeep Khare and Anupam Sanklecha were added to India Green's squad.

Dhawal Kulkarni Dhawal Sunil Kulkarni (born 10 December 1988) is an Indian cricketer as well as first class cricketer. He is a right arm medium-pace bowler and right-handed lower order batsman. In first class cricket, he plays for Mumbai and in the Indian Pre ...

who was initially named in India Blue's squad, was added to India Green's squad.

Fixtures

Round-robin

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Final

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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