2017–18 Irani Cup Explained

The 2017–18 Irani Cup was the 56th season of Irani Cup, a first-class cricket competition in India. It was played as a one-off match between Vidarbha (the winner of the 2017–18 Ranji trophy) and Rest of India cricket team. The match was played from 14 March 2018 to 18 March 2018 at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur.^{[1] [2]}

Squads

Vidarbha[3]	Rest of India[4] <	--
Playing XI-->
Faiz Fazal (c)	Karun Nair (c)
Ganesh Satish	Prithvi Shaw
Rajneesh Gurbani	Abhimanyu Easwaran
Wasim Jaffer	Ravikumar Samarth
Akshay Karnewar	Mayank Agarwal
Lalit Yadav	Hanuma Vihari
Siddhesh Neral	K. S. Bharat (wk)
Sanjay Ramaswamy	Ravindra Jadeja
Aditya Sarwate	Jayant Yadav
Karn Sharma	Shahbaz Nadeem
Shalabh Shrivastava	Anmolpreet Singh
Reserve Bench-->
Aditya Thakare	Siddarth Kaul
Akshay Wadkar (wk)	Ankit Rajpoot
Akshay Wakhare	Navdeep Saini
Apoorv Wankhade	Atit Sheth
Siddhesh Wath (wk)	Ravichandran Ashwin
Umesh Yadav

Ravindra Jadeja was ruled out of Rest of India's squad before the start of the tournament. He was replaced by Ravichandran Ashwin^[5]

External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo

Notes and References

1. Web site: BCCI advances domestic T20 tournaments ahead of IPL auction . 21 December 2017 . ESPNcricinfo.
2. News: Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament advanced on request of IPL teams . 14 August 2022 . Indian Express . Devendra . Pandey . 21 December 2017 .
3. Web site: Vidarbha Squad / Players . 10 March 2018 . ESPNcricinfo.
4. Web site: Ashwin, Iyer to lead Deodhar Trophy squads. 28 February 2018 . ESPNcricinfo.
5. Web site: R Ashwin to replace injured Ravindra Jadeja for Irani Trophy 2018. CricTracker. 10 March 2018 . 10 March 2018.