Vijay Hazare Trophy: Rohit Sharma to play in first 2 matches

AHMEDABAD: Former India skipper Rohit Sharma volition diagnostic successful the archetypal 2 matches for Mumbai successful the upcoming Vijay Hazare Trophy. However, India's T20 skipper Suryakumar Yadav, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, and all-rounder Shivam Dube person not been included successful Mumbai's squad for the home One-Day tournament. The squad volition beryllium captained by all-rounder Shardul Thakur.The radical signifier of VHT volition beryllium held betwixt Dec 24, 2025 and January 8, 2026. Mumbai person been placed successful Elite Group C, alongside Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Himachal, Maharashtra, Punjab, and Goa, and volition play their matches successful Jaipur.

"Rohit volition play successful Mumbai's archetypal 2 matches of the tourney (against Sikkim connected Dec 24, and against Uttarakhand connected Dec 26, astatine Jaipur)," a root successful the Mumbai Cricket Association told TOI connected Friday. The BCCI has made it mandatory for each existent nationalist squad players to crook up successful astatine slightest 2 matches of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, unless a subordinate is injured oregon recovering from wounded astatine CoE. Earlier, it emerged that erstwhile India skipper

Virat Kohli

excessively volition crook retired successful VHT for Delhi."All the India players volition beryllium accommodated successful the Mumbai squad arsenic and erstwhile they are available," Mumbai's elder enactment committee president Sanjay Patil told this paper, aft his sheet picked the squad for the tourney connected Friday. Also contiguous successful the enactment gathering was erstwhile India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar, presently the MCA's men's cricket advisor.Jaiswal, India's Test and ODI opener, was hospitalized successful Pune aft suffering from a bout of acute gastroenteritis aft Mumbai's past lucifer successful the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy against Rajasthan.

"He volition beryllium included successful the Mumbai squad erstwhile helium gets clearance from the aesculapian team," Patil said.India play their adjacent planetary bid starting with the three-match ODI bid against New Zealand from Jan 11, 2026 successful Vadodara.Meanwhile, it's learnt that erstwhile India and Mumbai skipper Ajinkya Rahane has asked to beryllium rested from the archetypal matches Mumbai squad successful the league signifier of the tournament. "He has got a hamstring issue, and volition remainder and recover.

He volition articulation the Mumbai squad aft the archetypal mates of matches," Patil said.The selectors person fixed a maiden call-up to opener Ishan Mulchandani. Young batter Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who managed to people conscionable 49 runs successful 4 matches@16.33 successful the recently-held Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy, was fortunate to past the axe. Prolific home batter Sarfaraz Khan, who was successful sizzling signifier successful SMAT, hammering 329 runs successful 7 matches astatine an mean of 65.80 and a onslaught complaint of 203.80, including 3 fifties and a century, is isolated of the squad, and truthful is his younger brother, allrounder Musheer Khan.Though Mumbai failed to support their SMAT title, failing to beforehand beyond the Super League Stage, Patil was rather pleased with the team's show successful the T20 tournament. "I'm rather blessed with our performance. We won 8 retired of our 10 matches, which means that we played immoderate bully cricket. Everyone played well, particularly Sarfaraz Khan. It's conscionable that we suffered severely owed to the Net Run Rate Rule," Patil said. Mumbai won 2 retired of their 3 matches successful the Super League stage, but crashed retired arsenic their NRR was inferior to the different teams.According to the rules of the tournament, the NRR was counted from scratch for the Super League. And, aft 3 Super League games, if aggregate teams were connected adjacent points, past alternatively of looking astatine the head-to-head figures, the NRR was taken into consideration.