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'Khub chauke chakke lagenge' - Fans react as reports suggest Bengaluru to host entire Duleep Trophy 2023

The Duleep Trophy is the first tournament of the Indian Domestic season. It'll be hosted entirely in Bengaluru. Here's how fans reacted.

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Duleep Trophy to be held in Bengaluru

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The inter-zonal first-class competition, the Duleep Trophy, will begin the 2023–24 calendar on June 28—the earliest start ever for an Indian domestic season—while the inter-zonal 50–over the competition, the Deodhar Trophy, will make a three-year return.

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The Ranji Trophy, which will take place from January 5 to March 14, will conclude the 1846-match season. In the latest development, the host city for the Duleep Trophy is reported to be Bengaluru with the entire tournament taking place in the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

The Central, South, North, East, West, and North-East zones will host games for the Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy. On October 1, the Irani Cup between the Rest of India and Saurashtra, the reigning Ranji Trophy champions, will start.

Duleep Trophy 2023: The build-up so far

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The Central Zone team will be led by Uttar Pradesh fast bowler Shivam Mavi in the next Duleep Trophy, which will start on June 28. For the men's cricket team of Uttar Pradesh, Mavi has participated in 12 first-class games since 2018. During the 2022–23 Ranji Trophy season, the 24-year-old took 19 victims, averaging 16.78.

Here’s the full squad for Central Zone: Shivam Mavi (c), Vivek Singh, Himanshu Mantri, Kunal Chandela, Shubham Sharma, Amandeep Khare, Rinku Singh, Akshay Wadkar, Upendra Yadav (vc), Dhruv Jurel, Saurabh Kumar, Manav Sathar, Saransh Jain, Avesh Khan, Yash Thakur.

Rongsen Jonathan, a batting all-rounder representing Nagaland, has been selected as the Northeast Zone team's captain for the red-ball competition. In 58 FC innings, Jonathan has scored 1906 runs at an average of 34.03 and taken 38 wickets, with his best stat line being 5/52. Sonam Palden Bhutia of Sikkim will serve as the Northeast Zone's coach, with Th. Kamlesh of Manipur and Vikash S. Chauhan of Meghalaya serve as the team's physio and trainer, respectively.

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The Duleep Trophy season will take place from June 28 until July 16. West Zone is the defending champion after defeating South Zone by 294 runs in the Coimbatore final of the previous season. Ajinkya Rahane, a seasoned Indian batter, led the West Zone in the 2022 Duleep Trophy.

Here’s how fans reacted:

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