Vijay Hazare Trophy | Gautam Gambhir, Shreyas Iyer set to take part in knock-outs

Gambhir was not a part of the Delhi team for the group stages of the tournament and now after passing the fitness test, he will raise the confidence of an already in-form Delhi top order. While Unmukt Chand, who suffered a freak blow on the jaw, has already scored 319 runs in six innings at an average of 53.16, Hiten Dalal has hit 283 runs at 47.16. Manjot Kalra, the centurion from India's Under-19 World Cup title win at the beginning of this month, was put on the stand-by by the selection committee.

Meanwhile, Baroda all-rounder Yusuf Pathan has been dropped from the team which is set to play in the quarterfinals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy against Saurashtra and will be replaced by Akshay Brahmbhatt. The former India all-rounder scored only 79 runs from the six matches he played in the tournament with the highest score being 28.

"Yusuf played six matches in the tournament but didn't perform well. So, it was decided to drop him and give chance to another player. His poor performance is the only reason behind leaving him out," said a BCA official, reported the Times of India.

Earlier, the 35-year-old player was not included in the probable team for the league matches, but his name was included during the selection of the final 15 provided he passed the fitness test. 

Teams:

Delhi: Ishant Sharma (c), Gautam Gambhir, Unmukt Chand, Rishabh Pant, Nitish Rana, Hiten Dalal, Dhruv Shorey, Lalit Yadav, Himmat Singh, Kulwant Khejroliya, Pradeep Sangwan, Navdeep Saini, Pawan Negi, Harsh Tyagi and Milind Kumar; Standbys: Anuj Rawat, Subodh Bhati, Manjot Kalra, Manan Sharma, Shivam Sharma.

Mumbai: Aditya Tare (Captain), Dhawal Kulkarni (Vice-Captain) Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Siddhesh Lad, Akhil Herwadkar, Jay Bista, Shivam Dube, Eknath Kerkar, Aakash Parkar, Dhrumil Matkar, Royston Dias, Shams Mulani, Shubham Ranjane, Shivam Malhotra, Prithvi Shaw.

Karnataka: Karun Nair (c), Mayank Agarwal, Samarth R, Stuart Binny, Gautam CM (wk), Pavan Deshpande, Gowtham K, Shreyas Gopal, Prasidh Krishna, Arvind S, Ronit More, Suchith J, Pradeep T, Devdutt Padikal, Sharath BR.