BENGALURU: With four players from the Karnataka team for the ongoing
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
making it to the India Test squad for the New Zealand series at home and the India ‘A’ squad for the tour of South Africa, the
Karnataka State Cricket Association
has sent an equal number of players as reinforcements. The team is currently in New Delhi for the knockouts. Having finished second in the elite Group B, Karnataka take on Saurashtra in the pre-quarterfinals on November 16.
The changes were necessitated after opener
Mayank Agarwal and pacer
Prasidh Krishna were named in the Indian team, while off-spinner
K Gowtham and opener
Devdutt Padikkal
were picked to travel to South Africa for three tour matches.
The replacements include the seasoned R Samarth, medium-pacer V Koushik, who had earlier failed to make it to the list of probables despite a fine showing in the previous couple of seasons. Also making the team are off-spinner and all-rounder Ritesh Bhatkal and Aditya Somanna. While Samarth and Somanna reached Delhi on Thursday, the other two joined the team in quarantine on Friday.
Squad for knockouts: Manish Pandey (C), Siddharth KV, Rohan Kadam, Anirudha A Joshi, Abhinav Manohar, Karun Nair, R Samarth, Sharath BR & Nihal Ullal (both WK), Shreyas Gopal, Suchith J, Pravin Dubey, Cariappa K C, Prateek Jain, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Darshan MB, Vidyadhar Patil, Ritesh Bhatkal, Aditya Somanna, Koushik V.
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