The 2016–17 Duleep Trophy was the 55th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament in India. In June 2016, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced that the tournament will feature day/night matches and pink ball will be used. The tournament was contested by three teams.
In August 2016 the BCCI confirmed that three teams, India Red, India Blue and India Green would play in a round-robin league stage. Each of these matches will last for four days, with the final scheduled to last five days, starting on 10 September. India Blue won the trophy, beating India Red by 355 runs in the final.
Squads India Red India Blue India Green Yuvraj Singh (c) Ankush Bains (wk) Abhinav Mukund KS Bharat Sudip Chatterjee Gurkeerat Singh Arun Karthik Akshay Wakhare Kuldeep Yadav Nathu Singh Anureet Singh Ishwar Pandey Nitish Rana M Ashwin Abhimanyu Mithun Gautam Gambhir (c) Dinesh Karthik (wk) Mayank Agarwal Sheldon Jackson Baba Aparajith Siddhesh Lad Parvez Rasool Karaparambil Monish Krishna Das Suryakumar Yadav Mohit Sharma Pankaj Singh Shardul Thakur Cheteshwar Pujara Hanuma Vihari Suresh Raina (c) Parthiv Patel (wk) Robin Uthappa Jalaj Saxena Ambati Rayudu Ian Dev Singh Rohan Prem Harbhajan Singh Shreyas Gopal Ashok Dinda Sandeep Sharma Ankit Rajpoot Rajat Paliwal Jasprit Bumrah M Vijay Pragyan Ojha Saurabh Tiwary
Fixtures Round-robin
Final
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo