
Mohammed Shami named in Bengal’s 50-member probables, eyes home return
The record, launched by the Cricket Association of Bengal, additionally consists of pacer Akash Deep and top-order batter Abhimanyu Easwaran, who’re each at present touring England with the Indian workforce.
It additionally consists of right-arm seamer Mukesh Kumar and senior batter Anustup Majumdar, who’s prone to lead Bengal once more.
Spin bowling all-rounder Shahbaz Ahmed, who’s at present recovering from an harm sustained within the Bengal Pro League T20, and wicketkeeper-batter Abishek Porel are additionally among the many probables who will attend a preseason camp, the date and venue of which is but to be introduced.
Shami may additionally function for East Zone within the season-opening Duleep Trophy, which returns to its conventional inter-zonal format this yr and begins on August 28.
The event could mark Shami’s return to aggressive cricket.
The 33-year-old Shami, who has performed 64 Tests, 108 ODIs and 25 T20Is, final turned out for India of their triumphant marketing campaign within the Champions Trophy early this yr after recovering from an ankle harm.
He picked up 9 wickets in 5 matches — joint-highest for India alongside Varun Chakravarthy, who took his 9 in simply three video games — as India defeated New Zealand within the ultimate.
But Shami was beneath par within the IPL, the place he turned out for his new franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad and managed simply six wickets in 9 innings at an economic system price of 11.23.
He had earlier returned to worldwide cricket within the T20I collection at residence towards England in January this yr, having final performed within the ODI World Cup ultimate in November 2023.
Shami had made a home comeback with Bengal within the final season, the place he performed throughout all codecs, however was not picked for the tour of Australia.
Bengal’s probables
Mohammed Shami, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Anustup Majumdar, Sudip Chatterjee, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Abishek Porel (wk), Shakir Habib Gandhi (wk), Kazi Junaid Saifi, Shahbaz Ahamed, Pradipta Pramanik, Writtick Chatterjee, Karan Lal, Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Sindhu Jaiswal, Ishan Porel, Mohammed Kaif, Subham Chatterjee, Sumanta Gupta, Chinmoy Jain, Ranjot Singh Khaira, Ankur Paul, Rahul Kundu, Aditya Purohit, Gaurav Singh Chauhan, Saurabh Kumar Singh, Aishik Patel, Priyanshu Srivastava, Ankit Chatterjee, Saksham Chaudhary, Aamir Gani, Vikash Singh (Junior), Rishabh Chaudhary, Raju Halder, Shreyan Chakraborty, Sourav Halder, Rahul Prasad, Ankit Mishra, Subham Sarkar, Vishal Bhati, Rohit, Rohit Kumar, Rishabh Vivek, Sumit Mohanta, Kanishk Seth, Sandipan Das (Junior), Sayan Ghosh, Nuruddin Mondal, Soummyadip Mandal and Yudhajit Guha.
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