“The MCA is pleased to announce that Shreyas Iyer has been appointed as the captain of the Mumbai senior men's team for the remaining league matches of the Vijay Hazare Trophy,” the association said on Monday.
He was not considered for the five-Test tour of England as well this summer, immediately after he had a poor IPL season.
Seam-bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur has been appointed captain of the 15-member West Zone squad for the upcoming Duleep Trophy matches. The selection committee meeting held at the BKC’s Sharad Pawar Indoor Cricket Academy picked seven players from Mumbai, four from Gujarat, and two each from Maharashtra and Saurashtra.
While Thakur missed the next two Tests at Edgbaston and Lord’s, Nitish Kumar Reddy’s injury opened the doors for his inclusion in the ongoing fourth Test at Manchester.
Thakur was named the Player of the Match for his hundred and four wickets in the semifinal.
The Men-in-Blue have made a single change in their Playing XI and have included the third spinner in Axar Patel in place of seamer Shardul Thakur.
The squad for the final displayed a few changes from the team that faced Australia in the four-match series.
The national selectors have picked seasoned pacer Mohammed Shami as a replacement for Jasprit Bumrah, who had to pull out of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup in Australia starting on Sunday. India will open their campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan on October 23. Mohammed Siraj and Shardul Thakur have been named as backups and will travel to Australia shortly, the release added.
Mitchell Marsh's 63 and Thakur's brilliant 4/36, which included the wicket of Jitesh Sharma, who threatened to take the match away from the Capitals in the final overs, helped the side seal an important win over PBKS to keep their playoff hopes alive.
The squad otherwise remains unchanged from the one that played in the first two Tests at the M.A.Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
