The 2018–19 Duleep Trophy was the 57th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament in India, which took place in August and September 2018. India Red were the defending champions. All of the matches took place at the NPR College Ground in Dindigul. The BCCI's technical committee structured the tournament to have four teams from four Ranji Trophy Groups, similar to the 2002–03 Duleep Trophy, but on the day of team selections, the format of the previous season was retained.
All three round-robin matches finished as draws. The first match, India Red took three points, as a result of a first-innings lead, with India Green getting one point. The second match, India Red had a first-innings lead over India Blue, therefore gaining three points, and advancing to the final. In the third and final match, India Blue finished with a first-innings lead against India Green, and advanced to the final.
India Blue won the tournament, beating India Red by an innings and 187 runs in the final.
Squads India Blue India Red India Green Faiz Fazal (c) Abhishek Raman Anmolpreet Singh Ganesh Satish Nikhil Gangta Dhruv Shorey K. S. Bharat (wk) Akshay Wakhare Saurabh Kumar Swapnil Singh Basil Thampi Bandaru Ayyappa Jaydev Unadkat Dhawal Kulkarni Ricky Bhui Abhinav Mukund (c) Sanjay Raghunath Ashutosh Singh Baba Aparajith Writtick Chatterjee Bavanaka Sandeep Abhishek Gupta (wk) Shahbaz Nadeem Mihir Hirwani Parvez Rasool Rajneesh Gurbani Abhimanyu Mithun Ishan Porel Prithvi Raj Akshay Wadkar (wk) Siddhesh Lad Parthiv Patel (c, wk) Prashant Chopra Priyank Panchal Sudip Chatterjee Gurkeerat Singh Baba Indrajith Vishnu Solanki Jalaj Saxena Karn Sharma Vikas Mishra Krishnamoorthy Vignesh Ankit Rajpoot Ashok Dinda Atit Sheth Akshay Wadkar replaced Abhishek Gupta in India Red's squad, as Gupta's doping ban was going to expire after the start of the Duleep Trophy. On 22 August, Siddhesh Lad and Ricky Bhui were released from their Quadrangular Series squads and added to the India Red and Blue teams respectively.
Points table TeamIndia Red 2 0 0 2 0 6India Blue 2 0 0 2 0 4 India Green 2 0 0 2 0 2 Top two teams advance to the Final.
Fixtures Round-robin
Final
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo