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Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan has been made the captain of the Jharkhand team for the Ranji Trophy 2024-2025 season. He did not play the last season even after the orders of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He last captained the Jharkhand team in 2018-19.
Ishan was given a place in the Rest of India team in the recently concluded Irani Cup. He scored 38 runs in the match played against Mumbai. However, he did not do wicketkeeping. Dhruv Jurel, who was included in the team, played the role of wicketkeeper.
It is believed that Ishan will not do wicketkeeping in Ranji as well. Two more wicketkeepers including Kumar Kushagra and Anukul Roy have also been included in the team. Jharkhand's first match is against Assam from October 11 in Guwahati.
Ishan returned to domestic first class cricket after 2 years from Duleep Trophy. He played first class cricket in the year 2022. Ishan was given a place in the India C team in the Duleep Trophy.
In February 2024, Ishan was dropped from BCCI's central contract for not giving preference to domestic cricket. At that time, BCCI secretary Jay Shah had warned the cricketers not playing in Team India that the cricketers who are out of the team should participate in domestic cricket to make a place in the national team.
Ishan Kishan withdrew his name after joining the team on the South Africa tour in December last year. He took a break from the national team due to personal reasons. Ishan did not play any competitive cricket for 2 months and now made a comeback from the DY Patil T20 tournament in February.
Ishan was also not selected in the Test series team against England. On the question of his exclusion, head coach Rahul Dravid had said that Ishan has not made himself available yet. If he wants to make a comeback, he will have to perform well in domestic cricket.
Ishan still did not play a single Ranji Trophy match from his home team Jharkhand. On the other hand, he started practicing with Pandya supporters (Krunal and Hardik) in Baroda.
Ishan Kishan (captain), Virat Singh (vice-captain), Kumar Kushagra (wicketkeeper), Nazim Siddiqui, Aryaman Sen, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Suraj, Anukul Roy, Utkarsh Singh, Supriyo Chakraborty, Saurabh Shekhar, Vikas Kumar, Vivekanand Tiwari, Manishi, Ravi Kumar Yadav, Raunak Kumar.
2024-10-10