Mumbai: Indian suburban players will get one last chance to impress ahead of the Mega IPL auction in Vijay Hazare Trophy, the one-day cricket tournament starts on Wednesday.
The auction is scheduled for January and prominent performance on the 50-Over event can cause a decent payment package with the IPL franchise.
People like Harshal Patel, Rahul Chahar, Deepak Chahar, who are not maintained by each franchise in the IPL, will try to make it counted when they represent their respective countries in the domestic one day.
The IPL has seen a number of young people who make it big last night because it has also served as a large platform to represent the country and will not be different this time.
In the opening day action, Defending Champion Mumbai will face Tamil Nadu who will drive high on the trust of winning Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy recently.
The Mulani Shams All-Rounder will lead Mumbai in their Elite Group B campaign in Trivandrum.
Mulani has also arrested a team when they toured Oman and with the absence of senior players, who were on duty nationally.
The team will have a Tangguh Yashasvi Jaiswal Kid Field Opener along with Arman Jaffer, Crisis Man Siddhesh Lad and the All-Rounder Shivam Dube to Bank Over, while Bowling’s attack will be led by experienced Dhawal Kulkarni.
The Tamil Nadu side will be supported by the inclusion of Dinesh Karthik and Washington Sundar because they will try to make their show changes last season when they failed to make the last eight.
Bengal will be driven by the inclusion of the senior batsman Anustup Majumdar who will provide stability to their side when they open their campaign against Baroda which limits poor shows in the trophy of Syed Mushtaq Ali won one match.
Sudip Chatterjee-LED Bengal impressed in the patch before bending to Karnataka in the quarter-finals of the Trophy Syed Mushtaq Ali and they will look for distances in fifty over format.
In Maharashtra, all eyes will be at Ruturaj Gaikwad who was maintained by Chennai Super Kings franchises after extraordinary performances as openers who saw the MS Dhoni-LED team won their fourth IPL title.
He will have a strong side with people like Rahul Tripathi and Naushad Shaikh to the bank when they take Madhya Pradesh in the opening group D them in Rajkot.
A total of 38 will be in action at Elite Group A, Elite Group B, Elite Group C, Elite Group D, Elite Group E, and Plate.
Mumbai won last season beat Uttar Pradesh.
Tournaments 2021-22 Edition will be played in seven Indian cities including Thiruvananthapuram, Chandigarh, Rajkot, Mumbai, Guwahati, Ranchi and Jaipur.
The group stage match will be played in Round-Robin style, with top teams from each elite group quarterly quarter-finals.
While the second elite group team was above and the topping side, the plate group would reach the last eight stage after the pre-quarter-final round.