The 2019–20 Duleep Trophy was the 58th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament in India. It took place in August and September 2019, starting the 2019–20 domestic cricket season in India. India Blue were the defending champions. Unlike the previous three seasons, the tournament was played as day games, played with a red ball. The final was initially announced as a day/night match with the pink ball. However, the final was changed and was played as a day game. The change was attributed due to players' preference.
The first match, between India Blue and India Green, saw only 49 overs bowled, all on the first day. Rain and a wet outfield prevented any further play, with both teams awarded one point each in the drawn match. The second match, between India Red and India Blue, also ended in a draw with India Red securing enough points to be the first team to advance to the final. During the match, Jalaj Saxena completed the double of scoring 6,000 runs and taking 300 wickets in first-class cricket. The third match, between India Green and India Red, was also drawn. India Green progressed to the final due to a superior quotient.
India Red won the tournament, beating India Green by an innings and 38 runs in the final.
Squads India Blue India Green India Red Shubman Gill (c) Ashutosh Aman Ankit Bawne Ricky Bhui Aniket Choudhary Tushar Deshpande Ruturaj Gaikwad Shreyas Gopal Saurabh Kumar Snell Patel (wk) Diwesh Pathania Rajat Patidar Jalaj Saxena Anmolpreet Singh Basil Thampi Faiz Fazal (c) Rahul Chahar Priyam Garg Dharmendrasinh Jadeja Milind Kumar Siddhesh Lad Mayank Markande Rajesh Mohanty Akshdeep Nath Ishan Porel Ankit Rajpoot Akshath Reddy Dhruv Shorey Tanveer Ul-Haq Akshay Wadkar (wk) Jayant Yadav Priyank Panchal (c) Varun Aaron Harpreet Singh Bhatia Abhimanyu Easwaran Ankit Kalsi Avesh Khan Ishan Kishan (wk) KS Bharat (wk) Mahipal Lomror Ronit More Karun Nair Axar Patel Aditya Sarwate Jaydev Unadkat Akshay Wakhare Sandeep Warrier
Points table TeamIndia Red 2 0 0 2 0 6 1.141India Green 2 0 0 2 0 2 1.197India Blue 2 0 0 2 0 2 0.630 Top two teams advance to the Final.
Fixtures Round-robin
Final
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo