The 55th edition of the Duleep trophy is coming up in august and the schedule of the league has been announced by the BCCI recently. The first match will start from 23rd August 2016. It is one of the popular test league of the Indian domestic cricket which is held every year. This year BCCI has made some changes in the format. If we look at the Duleep Trophy 2016 Teams, there will be only 3 teams in place of 5 and they are :-
- India Red
- India Blue
- India Green
These 3 teams will compete each other. The squads of each team has been announced by the BCCI. Yuvraj Singh will be the captain of the India Red team, Gautam Gambhir will be of India Blue where Suresh Raina will be leading India Green. BCCI has published list of 15 players for each team which will be the part of the league.
This year all the matches will be played under the lights which means it will follow the day-night format. One more change is there, all the matches will be played with the Pink ball. There will be no red ball in the league this season.
Duleep Trophy 2016 Teams & their squads :-
India Red squad :-
| S.No. | Players |
| 1 | Abhinav Mukund |
| 2 | KS Bharat |
| 3 | Sudip Chatterjee |
| 4 | Gurkeerat Singh |
| 5 | Yuvraj Singh (Captain) |
| 6 | Ankush Bains (wk) |
| 7 | Arun Karthik |
| 8 | Akshay Wakhare |
| 9 | Kuldeep Yadav |
| 10 | Nathu Singh |
| 11 | Anureet Singh |
| 12 | Ishwar Pandey |
| 13 | Nitish Rana |
| 14 | M Ashwin |
| 15 | Abhimanyu Mithun |
India Blue squad:-
| S.No. | Players |
| 1 | Gautam Gambhir (Captain) |
| 2 | Mayank Agarwal |
| 3 | Sheldon Jackson |
| 4 | Baba Aparajith |
| 5 | Siddhesh Lad |
| 6 | Dinesh Karthik (wk) |
| 7 | Parvez Rasool |
| 8 | K Monish |
| 9 | Krishna Das |
| 10 | Suryakumar Yadav |
| 11 | Mohit Sharma |
| 12 | Pankaj Singh |
| 13 | Shardul Thakur |
| 14 | Cheteshwar Pujara |
| 15 | Hanuma Vihari |
India Green squad:-
| S.No. | Players |
| 1 | Robin Uthappa |
| 2 | Jalaj Saxena |
| 3 | Ambati Rayudu |
| 4 | Ian Dev Singh |
| 5 | Rohan Prem |
| 6 | Suresh Raina (Captain) |
| 7 | Parthiv Patel (wk) |
| 8 | Harbhajan Singh |
| 9 | Shreyas Gopal |
| 10 | Ashoke Dinda |
| 11 | Sandeep Sharma |
| 12 | Ankit Rajpoot |
| 13 | Rajat Paliwal |
| 14 | Jasprit Bumrah |
| 15 | Murali Vijay |
You can check the schedule of the Duleep Trophy 2016 here.