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Prithvi Shaw has no place in Mumbai Ranji team

Published - 2-JAN-2024 13:48 IST | Updated - 11-APR-2024 8:30 IST

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Prithvi Shaw has no place in Mumbai Ranji team: Association released the squad for the first two matches.

“Ajinkya Rahane will be the captain”

Mumbai has released a 15-member squad for the first two matches of the new season of the upcoming Ranji Trophy. India's young batsman Prithvi Shaw has not got a place in this.

Ajinkya Rahane will captain the team for the second consecutive season. In 2023, the Mumbai team finished fourth in Elite Group B and failed to qualify for the knockouts.

Mumbai will start their campaign against Bihar on January 5, followed by a clash with Andhra Pradesh from January 12 to 15.

Shaw was injured in England

Last year Shaw became a part of the county cricket team Northamptonshire. He suffered a knee injury in a match against Durham in September. He was then on a 3-month recovery break. However, Mumbai Cricket Association has not said anything on Shaw not being in the squad. Shaw has scored 3802 runs with 12 centuries in 44 Ranji matches for Mumbai.

Prithvi Shaw played a record inning of 244 runs against Somerset in the One-Day Cup.

Atharva Ankolekar gets a chance for the first time

23 year old left arm spinner Atharva Ankolekar has joined the team for the first time. In 2020, Atharva was a part of the Indian Under-19 team. On Sunday 31 December, Ankolekar scored 70 runs and took 5 wickets for Victory Cricket Club against New Hind Sporting Club in the Police Shield final held at Police Gymkhana.

Apart from Shaw, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Suryakumar Yadav are also not part of the team in the initial games of this season. However, both the players have become regular players of the national team.

Mumbai is the most successful team of Ranji but has not won the title since 2015-16.

Mumbai is the most successful team in the history of Ranji Trophy. They have won the trophy 39 times in 88 seasons which is 44.3 percent. After this, the second most successful team is Karnataka which has won the title 8 times. However, Mumbai has not won a single title since the 2015–16 season. Since then Mumbai played the final twice, in which it did not win. The previous (2022-23) season was won by Saurashtra.

Mumbai team's squad for the first two Ranji matches - Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Jai Bista, Bhupen Lalwani, Hardik Tamore, Sarfaraz Khan, Shivam Dubey, Suved Parkar, Prasad Pawar, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Tushar Deshpande, Mohit Awasthi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Royston Dias and Atharva Ankolekar.

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