This tournament is to be played in Tamil Nadu from 8-25 September.
Delhi’s veteran batsman Dhruv Shorey will be Mandeep’s deputy at the premier zonal event.
Bengal’s experienced run-machine Manoj Tiwary will lead the East Zone team, and will be assisted by Jharkhand’s Virat Singh.
Meanwhile, the elderly India Fast bowler Ishant Sharma has made himself available for the Ranji Trophy.
Among others, North Zone side India pacer Navdeep Saini, Punjab pacer Siddharth Kaul and India U-19 side. World Cup winning Delhi captain Yash Dhul.
North Zone Team: Yash Dhullu
(Delhi), Dhruv Shourie (Vice-Captain, Delhi), Manan Vohra (Uttarakhand), Mandeep Singh (Captain, Punjab), Himanshu Rana (HP), Akash Vashisht (HP), Anmol Malhotra (WK, Punjab) ), Mayank Dagar (HP), Pulkit Narang
(Services), Navdeep Saini (Delhi), Siddharth Kaul (Punjab), Jagjit Singh (Uttarakhand), Nishant Sindhu (Himachal Pradesh), Kamran Iqbal (Jammu and Kashmir), Vikas Mishra (Delhi).
East Zone Squad: Manoj Tiwary (Captain), Sudeep K Gharami, Anushtup Majumdar, Abhishek Porel (WK), Shahbaz Ahmed, Ishan Porel, Akash Deep (All Bengal), Virat Singh (Vice-Captain), Nazim Siddiqui, Kumar Kushagra , Shahbaz Nadeem (Entire Jharkhand), Mukhtar Hussain, Riyan Parag (Assam), Mani Shankar Mura Singh (Tripura), Shantanu Mishra (Odisha).