Ranji Trophy 2020: R Ashwin and Dinesh Karthik included in Tamil Nadu squad for next two games

The two missed team's last two Ranji Trophy games.

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Ace off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and the experienced wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik are all set to return to Ranji Trophy 2020 action, as the two veteran Tamil Nadu cricketers have been included in the team's 15-man squad for their upcoming games against Mumbai and Railways.

With Murali Vijay continues to stay on the sidelines, the opening batsman Abhinav Mukund, who missed the Tamil Nadu’s last two matches due to personal reasons, also returns to the side for the upcoming two Ranji Trophy matches against Mumbai and Railways to be held on January 11-14 and January 19-22 respectively both at the M A Chidambaram stadium in Chennai.

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Karthik, who scored a century in Tamil Nadu’s season opener against Karnataka, missed the next three games due to an injury, while Ashwin was rested for the last two games citing workload management after featuring in the first two matches against Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh.

The veteran cricketers return will be the major boost for the Tamil Nadu led by Vijay Shankar ahead of the crucial encounter against Mumbai as they are yet to win a single game in the ongoing 2019-20 season having lost 2 of their 4 games with 2 ended in a draw.

Apart from Ashwin, Tamil Nadu also included two other spinners in R Sai Kishore and M Siddharth as well as pacers in T Natarajan and K Vignesh for the upcoming Ranji matches.

Here’s Squad:
Vijay Shankar (Captain), Abhinav Mukund, Ganga Sridhar Raju, Surya Prakash, Kaushik Gandhi, B Aparajith, Dinesh Karthik, R Ashwin, R Sai Kishore, M Siddharth, T Natarajan, N Jagadeesan, K Vignesh, K Mukunth, Pradosh Ranjan Paul

(With PTI Inputs)

 
 

By Rashmi Nanda - 09 Jan, 2020

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