Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who is trying his best to make a comeback in the Indian team, was recently released by his Indian Premier League team Sunrisers Hyderabad. He is entering the IPL 2025 auction with a base price of Rs 2 crore. Meanwhile, he has got a big responsibility for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024. He has been made the new captain of Uttar Pradesh's T20 team. He will captain the Uttar Pradesh team in the tournament starting on November 23.
Uttar Pradesh team is included in Group C of the tournament, which includes teams from Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Manipur, Haryana, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu Kashmir, and Jharkhand. Their first match is against Delhi on 23 November. Bhuvneshwar Kumar has the experience of captaining Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL, so the youth will get a lot to learn under his captaincy. The team's top-order batsman Madhav Kaushik is the vice-captain of the team.
In this season's Ranji Trophy, Kaushik played a brilliant innings of 163 runs against Punjab, while he scored 346 runs in 5 innings. Apart from Bhuvi and Madhav, the UP team includes excellent players like Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Yash Dayal, Piyush Chawla, Mohsin Khan, and Shivam Mavi, who are proving their mettle in the Indian team. Let us tell you that in the last season, the captaincy of the UP team was with batting all-rounder Karan Sharma. The team won 3 out of 6, while one match could not be played due to rain. The team had to face defeat from Punjab in the quarter-finals.
Uttar Pradesh team for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
