Searching for giant runs, veteran India batter Cheteshwar Pujara on Tuesday made the Saurashtra squad for the Ranji Trophy starting February 10.
Pujara has been named within the 21-member squad, introduced by means of the Saurashtra Cricket Affiliation.
Saurashtra, who’re positioned in Elite staff D, play their league suits in Ahmedabad.
Saurashtra are positioned at the side of home heavyweights and 41-time Ranji champions Mumbai, Odisha and Goa.
The selectors have expectedly named skilled campaigner and prolific left-arm speedster Jaydev Unadkat because the skipper.
The staff is recently coaching on the SCA Stadium right here and can succeed in Ahmedabad on Thursday night time.
Pacer Chetan Sakariya, who made a mark within the IPL, has additionally been named within the squad.
Some other seasoned campaigner Sheldon Jackson at the side of regulars Arpit Vasavada, Kamlesh Makwana, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, younger stumper Harvik Desai at the side of key spinner Dharmendrasinh Jadeja have all made the squad.
The Ranji Trophy, which used to be now not held closing yr because of the COVID-19 pandemic, used to be scheduled to start on January 13 however used to be postponed owing to a 3rd wave of infections around the nation.
It is going to now be held in two stages, with the primary segment starting on Thursday until March 15 throughout quite a lot of venues within the nation.
The premier home match then takes a damage throughout the IPL and resumes from Would possibly 30 to June 26.
Squad: Jaydev Unadkat (Captain), Cheteshwar Pujara, Sheldon Jackson, Arpit Vasavada, Chirag Jani, Kamlesh Makwana, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Prerak Mankad, Vishvarajsinh Jadeja, Harvik Desai, Kevin Jivrajani, Kushang Patel, Jay Chauhan, Samarth Vyas, Parthkumar Bhut, Yuvrajsinh Chudasama, Devang Karamta, Snell Patel, Kishan Parmar and Aditya Jadeja
