Keeping an eye on India’s next Test tour of New Zealand, the BCCI is in talks with a few English counties to get a short-term contract for talented pacer Auqib Nabi during the final few rounds of the Championship.
Nabi, last Ranji season’s highest wicket-taker with 60 scalps, and Gurnoor Brar didn’t get a look-in in the playing XI for the two Tests against Sri Lanka recently.
While Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna have earned much-needed workload related breaks, Gurnoor Brar will be linking up with the North Zone side for the semi-final against South Zone starting November 30 at the Centre of Excellence.
“It was a decision taken by the Indian team think-tank (team management and selection committee) that Gurnoor will be playing the Duleep Trophy. Already Arshdeep (Singh) and Anshul (Kamboj) are in playing eleven and Gurnoor will replace Sunil Kumar. So, BCCI is looking for at least two to three red-ball games for Auqib in England, which will be handy,” a BCCI source told PTI on conditions of anonymity.
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