Less than a yr after he captained the India U-19 group to the World Cup title, 20-year-old Yash Dhull has been named captain of the high-profile Delhi Ranji Trophy group, which incorporates veteran Ishant Sharma and IPL (Indian Premier League) star Nitish Rana in its ranks.
Dhull, in all chance, is among the youngest to have ever captained Delhi and that too in his ninth First-Class sport after a promising entry within the Ranji Trophy final yr.
In eight video games that he has performed up to now, Dhull has scored 820 runs at a median of 72 plus and has 4 lots of.
It is known that the DDCA (Delhi and District Cricket Association) brass wished to hold out the powerful transition from this season and Dhull, by advantage of being one of the constant performers and somebody blessed with management acumen, has been handed over the reins.
“Somewhere we had to draw the line. We need to have a transition being carried out. Pradeep Sangwan, last year’s captain, had to be dropped as he hasn’t been measuring up,” a supply near the DDCA choice committee advised PTI on situation of anonymity.
The squad has been chosen for first two video games (vs Maharashtra in Pune from December 13-17 and vs Assam, December 17-20).
Ishant, the veteran, who want to have one ultimate shot at IPL glory, if not a nationwide call-up, has been chosen for the primary two video games.
“Ishant has also been given a couple of games. Let’s hope he shoulders more responsibility,” the supply mentioned.
Dhull is presumably the youngest when it comes to age at 20 years and 29 days however definitely has far more red-ball expertise than the likes of Hrithik Shokeen, Ayush Badoni, all of whom had made their IPL debuts final yr.
It is known that T20 specialist Rana hasn’t been thought-about for red-ball captaincy.
DELHI SQUAD
Yash Dhull (c), Himmat Singh (vc), Dhruv Shorey, Anuj Rawat (wk), Vaibhav Rawal, Lalit Yadav, Nitish Rana, Ayush Badoni, Hrithik Shokeen, Shivank Vashisth, Vikas Mishra, Jonty Sidhu, Ishant Sharma, Mayank Yadav, Harshit Rana, Simarjeet Singh Lakshay Thareja (wk), Pranshu Vijayran.