India all-rounder Shivam Dube was on Monday added to the 15-member West Zone sq🎐uad🔜 for the Deodhar Trophy.
Fast bowler Tushar Deshpande was listed among the standby pl🐈ayers for the tournament, which is 🦩scheduled to commence on July 24.
This will be the first time 🔴that the tournament is held post the COVID-19 pandemic. The last edition was played during the 2019-20 season.
The entirety of the tour𒁃nament will be played in Puducherry from July💜 24 to August 3.
Dube had an ex༒cellent outing with the Chennai Super Kings (CSK♔) in the 16th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), where he scored 418 runs in 16 matches at the strike-rate of 158.33.
West Zone's 15-member squad also features India and Delhi Capitals' batter Prithvi Shaw, who ✃is scheduled to play for Northamptonshire in the County Championship after the conclusion of the ongoing Duleep Trophyꦬ.
Priyank Panchal will lead the West Zone team, which incღlude༺s players like Rahul Tripathi and Sarfaraz Khan.
Deshpande, too, had a memorable season withౠ CSK, picking up 21 wickets in 16 matches, emerging as their highest wicket-taker. He was recently called up into the West Zone team before the Duleep Trophy semi-final match against Central Zone.
West Zone Squad: Priyank Panchal (captain), Prithvi Shaw, Rahul Tripathi, Harvik Desai, Het Patel, Sarfaraz Khan, Ankit Bawne, Samarth Vyas, Shivam Dube, Atiꦯt Seth, Parth Bhut, Shams Mulani, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Chintan Gaja, Rajvardhan Hangargekar.
Sta꧑ndby players: Chetan Sakariy🧔a, Tushar Deshpande, Yuvraj Dodiya, Abu Kazi, Kathan Patel.
